A minimum salary of $ 600, sufficient to parace the family food basket, demanded the association of Employees of the university of Carabobo (AEUC) in a community. Simultaneously, he rejected the salary bonoffication imposed by the Government.
In a statement sent to this wording, signed by the president of the association, Pedro Ulacio, rejected the “increase” of the bonds. That does not solve the workers’ problem, Bono is not a salary, he said.
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Nicolás Maduro brought the integral income from $ 130 to $ 160, as the Economic War Bonus increased from $ 90 to $ 120 for Public Administration workers, but maintained the Ticket basket at $ 40. In practice, the increase announced on May 1 was $ 30. The pension, from 130 bolivars to $ 50 and the pensioners in $ 5.
Three years without salary increase
In the statement, workers recalled that since 2022 they do not receive salary increase. This has resulted in the freezing of the income received by benefits such as bonuses, vacations, premiums, social benefits and incidents to savings banks, whose calculations are made based on the minimum formal wage.
In this way, according to the brief, workers’ rights are violated. “The AEUC totally rejects the policy of detachment applied to the university sector, since we lose all the benefits established in collective hiring. Bono is not a salary, we demand a dignified, sufficient and indexed salary increase. The increase in recently announced bonuses, does not solve the workers’ problem.”
The UC workers also demanded, in a forceful way, the National Executive to be fulfilled in article 91 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (CRBV) and in collective contracts.
Minimum salary of $ 600
This serves as a basis for proposing that the minimum wage be set at $ 600 per month. This amount would allow to cover the family food basket, which by March 2025 reached $ 526.83, according to data from the documentation and social analysis center of the Venezuelan Federation of Teachers (CENDAS-FVM).
In the brief, Ulacio called on workers to maintain contingency schedule at the university. He argued that the economic situation is worse for inflation and the serious crisis that all public universities are going through and with them the workers to whom the salary is insufficient
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