The unions reach out to the employers at their headquarters to reach an agreement to raise wages

• Rising corporate profits contribute more to inflation than rising wages

The

have

out this Monday to the

to try to reactivate the negotiation of the V Employment and Collective Bargaining Agreement

by pointing out in a meeting held at the headquarters of the companies that they could accept that part of the

that are agreed for the coming years are replaced by contributions to

, as has been done in the

sector agreement .

In this way,

seem to go a step further in

When the negotiations began in the spring, the unions

to ensure that no worker covered by an agreement would suffer a loss of purchasing power in the face of rising inflation.

Little by little, as the negotiation progressed and they came up against the wall of the CEOE and its refusal to include these clauses, they lowered expectations and ended up proposing more watered-down

, which were not accepted by the employers either.

The dialogue was blown up before the summer since the introduction of some kind of clause was essential for some and unaffordable for others.

Meanwhile, and in the absence of an updated AENC that gives guidelines to companies and unions on the path of wage increases that they must follow in the coming years,

-sectoral and company- in which wage increases have been agreed salary depending on the circumstances of each one of them, a system with which the CEOE feels very comfortable since it defends that

: some can afford to raise salaries more than others.

The unions are the most interested

in getting a new AENC to go ahead, which will also serve as the embryo for the Income Agreement requested by the Government, and, for this reason, they have extended their hand to the employers this Monday, pointing out that the agreement agreed in the

sector could

This agreement agreed to a

(4% in 2022, 3% in 2023 and 3% in 2024), but of that total increase of 10 points,

of increase will not occur in the payroll , but will materialize in

.

This means that in 2022 the salary rises by 2.5% and contributions are made equivalent to increasing the salary by another 1.5%;

in 2023, the salary will be raised by 2% and 1% is allocated to the plan and, in 2024, the payroll will rise by 1.75% and 1.25% goes to the plan.

The total salary will grow by 10%, but

that workers receive monthly

in three years (

, in line with what the employers have been defending) and they

will make

additional 3.75%

increase in income .

"The construction agreement says that the contributions made by companies to employment pension plans are workers' income, workers' salaries. Bearing this in mind,

at the hour to

that give stability to the country with an

(...) we believe that it is something to explore", said

, confederal secretary of the

in the forum organized by employers and the Pérez-Llorca law firm on employment pension plans.

spokesman

at the negotiation table later confirmed to this medium that

It is no coincidence that these words have been pronounced at the headquarters itself, in front of which until recently they used to demonstrate.

Along the same lines,

, Secretary of Social Protection and Public Policies of the

, has stated that "with such high inflation, the promotion of employment pension plans is an opportunity."

"In construction, a salary review clause linked to the pension plan has been achieved, which is not inflationary and

, he pointed out, although he also defended that the second-round effects that are taking place in inflation does not come from wages.

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