María Eugenia Vidal formalizes her salary proposal at 7,000 pesos for Christmas and Christmas – 11/27/2018

After the announcement of social restraint measures and the Christmas bonus for retirees in Buenos Aires, María Eugenia Vidal is seeking Tuesday an agreement with the state unions, which provides a bonus of 7,000 pesos, for the one time. Also an additional 2% increase in December of the base salary of employees of the public administration.

The Governor calls for the resource effort, in the midst of the financial and economic rigor of the province, to defuse the possibility of conflict before the end of the year with great political and institutional sensitivity due to the economic downturn and inflationary indicators still worrying.

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But, in addition, according to the overall offer to install by the cabinet representatives at the negotiating table with the state, we try to eliminate the disadvantages of 2019, at least in the section up to # In July, when Vidal begins to walk on the ramp. of his reelection. For the first half, the offer will be 16% and 7% between July and December, up to 23%. This percentage is included in the budget that the Legislative Assembly will debate on Friday.

In case of compliance, the scheme for the 2018 fiscal year in progress will be 30% until November, plus 2% in December. It represents an appreciable elimination with an anticipated inflation higher than 45% at the end of the year. For this reason, Vidal uses the non-remunerative bonus, of exceptional character, of 7,000 pesos. In the lower end of salary ranges, they would have a 50% improvement impact. But for those on a 48-hour weekly diet, the effect is much smaller.

UPCN and Fegepba, among other organizations, would be able to agree on terms of reference for their respective boards of directors, even with the pay gap it would represent. On the other hand, ATE, Judiciales, Cicop and other unions affiliated to the CTA have been resistant to this arrangement. Through a separate chain, the education sector is in controversy with the government and is pursuing the plan of struggle, which records one month of activity stoppage throughout the school calendar. Wednesday, they are summoned by Vidal to continue to discuss. A few weeks after the end of the cycle, parity is still open, a process that began in February.

On Tuesday, the official representation composed of Ministers Hernán Lacunza (Economy), Marcelo Villegas (Labor) and Gabriel Sánchez Zinny (Education) will have for the evaluation of trade union negotiators a staggering of salary improvement 2019 in this order : 4% in January, 4% in March, 4% in May and 4% in June. With the commitment to meet again in July to update these badets if the 16% scheduled for the first half are offset by inflation. The province of Buenos Aires does not apply the trigger clause for the automatic update of wages.

With the Teachers' Front (AMET, FEB, SUTEBA, SADOP and UDA, plus Udocba), the negotiation is complex and difficult to solve. On October 11, the Buenos Aires government offered teachers a salary increase of 30% (31.7% incorporating teaching materials) starting in October and a new meeting in December, to be held on Wednesday. The guilds rejected it and Vidal decided to join the salary by decree.

We now call meeting number 20. There will be proposal number 11 and the possibility of new strikes is not removed.