After that, the sessions will continue with the rest of the unions that bring together public administration employees, including Employees and Judicial Officials, who have a pending mandatory conciliation.
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ATE is also scheduled for this Monday at the start of the June joint elections.
Salary recomposition
At 11 o’clock the representatives of ATE, who represent the workers of the Central Administration, are summoned. In the last assembly, it was decided to jointly demand a wage recomposition “due to the constant and strong loss of purchasing power that workers have suffered since November of last year.”
Furthermore, they explained, “we have colleagues who are requesting their transfers to the plant, categorizations, among other requests that we have presented, to which the employers responded with attacks that restrict our freedom of association.”
What they raised in the assembly is that since November, the loss of purchasing power was 100%, while taxes, services and other basic needs had “huge increases ranging from 150% to 400%.”
They understand – they say – that beyond the collection difficulties due to the crisis and national cuts, “the Government has the necessary funds to be able to present a worthy proposal.”
AMPROS, the union that brings together health professionals, will follow the same path. Claudia Iturbe confirmed to ONE Diary that the basis of the order at the joint table will be the “salary recomposition of 70%” due to the loss of purchasing power last year.
The latest agreements
Previous negotiations with unions came to fruition in 16 cases. The exceptions were judicial employees and officials who did not accept any of the Government’s salary proposals and went on strike until mandatory conciliation was issued. In the middle, Governor Alfredo Cornejo granted workers by decree a 10% increase on the class assignment for the months of April, May and June, calculated on the fixed base of December of last year.
This increase is not cumulative and applies exclusively to agents in the Salary Regime 10 sector.
With the conflict still on the table in the Undersecretariat of Labor – which must decide this Monday whether to extend it for 10 days or declare the failure of the mandatory conciliation -, the Judiciary is summoned for this Wednesday to the new joint meeting, in which the Supreme Court of Justice will participate.
The rest of the unions accepted one of the two offers in April. The first contemplated an increase of 10% in April, 10% in May and 10% in June, taking the basic figure for January of this year as a reference; plus non-remunerative and non-rewardable sums.
They were $70 thousand in April, $50 thousand in May, $30 thousand in June, for agents who in March have not reached a gross salary of two and a half times the Minimum, Vital and Mobile Salary. And for agents above that salary threshold, it was $35,000 in April, $25,000 in May and $11,000 in June.
This proposal was accepted by Regimes 5 and 15 of ATE, SUTE and the Institute of Games and Casinos.
The second alternative consisted of an increase of 11% in April, 11% in May and 11% in June, taking the January 2024 base as a reference; no bonuses. This offer was preferred by Ampros, the 13, 35 and Park Ranger regimes represented by ATE, Sitravi, representative of the Provincial Road Workers, State Prosecutor’s Office, General Accounting Office, EPAS, Undersecretariat of Labor and Employment, General Treasury, Court of Accounts, Fund for transformation and growth.
June as a calculation base?
It is one of the issues that will be discussed during the joint negotiations. In recent meetings, the unions achieved that the increases were set based on the salary for January 2024 and not for December as the Government had initially offered.
In this new round, they will seek to update the calculation base to be applied for the next increases to the June amounts.
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