Concrete unemployment rate in the public sector and government tries to reach agreement on readjustment

The sixth meeting of the Public Sector Council, consisting of 15 unions and the CUT (Workers' Union), and Ministers Felipe Larraín and Nicolás Monckeberg (Labor) was held for the sixth time. bring the positions closer to the sector's wage adjustment.

However, at the meeting that began around 7 pm, neither party had moved an inch past the latest figures placed on the table.

In the public sector, they demand a nominal readjustment of 7%, while the government offered 3.1%; which represents a real 0.2% (above the inflation forecast).

Faced with this, public officials concretized the call for a national strike and mobilization for what they see as insufficient readjustment. To the same extent of the government, they indicate that there is a readjustment related to the reality of the budget deficit of the national coffers.

In front of this scene, the Minister of the Property, Felipe Larraín, had already pronounced Monday morning declarations calling to the dialogue: "We do what we can under the restrictions that we have, but by trying, with a will , to reach an agreement. "

He added that "for this reason, we call for maintaining the dialogue." For the moment, the mobilizations are not the right way, but the dialogue. "

The parliamentarians who have already met the head of the finances indicated that they would not propose a readjustment of less than 4%.

In this context, the president of CUT, Barbara Figueroa, said that "the government's call is to trust, which creates a willingness to agree, I would say that this reflects the 39, the spirit with which the table wants to build, but do it at the base of signals that are not only about the public world and the private world. "

Regarding the strike and mobilizations started Monday, Figueroa said that he had received a favorable reception. by public sector unions. "We are very satisfied with the level of response, but we know that it is not everything, we are mobilized in the hope of continuing to move forward in the afternoon meeting (this Monday "

At the end of this edition, negotiations between the public sector table and government authorities continued.