Saving distances and collective labor agreements, a group of unions appears that sets the main guidelines of the 2023 version parities: short agreements, which can become permanent if inflation runs rampant and without any type of ceiling that limits discussions. Far from the declarations of Kelly Olmosthe Minister of Labor, who suggested that salary negotiations be located around the official inflationary guideline of 60%, the unions want salaries to stop running behind the rise in prices and start earning pesos in the pockets of the bases.
With that goal in mind, serge palazzo, leader of La Bancaria, national deputy of the Frente de Todos and today identified with Kirchnerism, put himself first and was able to establish contact with the business chambers due to the increase in assets. Duro, pointing out that the financial sector has recently obtained “extraordinary” returns, bet on obtaining a relevant number for its affiliates, especially after closing 94.1% by 2022 and pending review. But he still did not get an echo and his guild declared itself in a state of alert and mobilization.
His relatives tell this medium that they will await the results of the hearing between the parties, which will take place next Thursday, and the steps to follow will be defined, in a scenario that appears to be without an offer from the companies. The round trip will have as a characteristic, in addition to the harshness, figures under lock and key, with no pretense of horizon, although the union sphere knows that what the legislator can achieve is important and that politics follows it closely. In fact, last year, Cristina Kirchner celebrated one of the agreements that she signed in the midst of an inflationary escalation.
The figures that each sector will claim are under lock and key but no one will accept maximums
Teachers enrolled in the Confederation of Education Workers of the Argentine Republic (CTERA), one of the largest trade union groups in the country with its more than 400,000 members also appears on the map, raising their voices ahead of February 9, the date on which they were summoned to discuss the remuneration update. Sonia Alesso, the general secretary of the union, in conversation with PROFILE, indicates that they arrive at the instance after signing an annual parity of 114% and anticipate that the proposal will be simple: “we want there to be permanent monitoring of the salary and a review”.
This strategy, according to the union figure, had a positive result and he says that it could be repeated, beyond the fact that the rise in values could be less than that of 2022. “A guideline was made at the beginning and later we had four revisions, that made it possible to beat him to inflation, we must continue with the permanent review because it is limited”, he valued. When asked about a salary ceiling when negotiating, like Olmos, his answer is blunt: “Those of us who are interested in there not being inflation are the workers, because we suffer from it. Hopefully it will be 60% per year but it is already high. We continue to maintain that the parities have no ceiling and we are going to discuss it in the corresponding area, ”they threw.
Pablo Moyano, one of the triumvirs of the CGT, who achieved a salary understanding of 107% per year until August, is another of the fervent opponents of the salary horizon and expresses it in public and in private. What’s more: he maintained that no union group can close a parity around the numbers that the ruling party considered.
The states closed their parity with an annual increase of 97%
Jorge Alone, press secretary of the CGT and general secretary of the Insurance union, one of the first unions that closed a joint venture of around 100%, contributes, clarifying that each activity has particular debates and calendars, that inflation is going down, that has been contained in recent months and that allowed it to not reach a triple-digit figure. “In many agreements, like mine, we have been able to recover two or three points but we come from years in which we lost 25% to 28% of purchasing power,” he asserted.
In this context, the leader of Azopardo street has “a positive expectation” for the coming months and remarks that in the case of his union it will be “in a kind of permanent parity and we are renewing the numbers every three or four months, according to to inflation variables. The concept of constant updating also ended up being welcomed by Juan Zabaleta, mayor of Hurlingham, who announced monthly reviews when he negotiated with the state.
Notably, other unions rushed in and signed 60 mode understandings: This was the case of the Unión Tranviaria Automotor, by Roberto Fernándeza man identified with Luis Barrionuevo, who offered a semi-annual offer of 31% for the first quarter, with monitoring in June, and Buenos Aires state workers, who agreed to an annual 60% with quarterly review.
While waiting for the figure to be discussed by the Commerce union, a parity that will open in April and that will be witnessed by the number of affiliates it has, 1,800,000, the largest in the country, and with the following precedent: it obtained a 101 % over a year after monitoring.
Gerardo Martínez, the “lobbyist” behind the scenes
Gerardo Martínez, leader of the Uocra, and one of the main faces of the CGT, spares no words when talking about inflation and the possibility of giving a mark to the 2023 parity.
In the first place, it argues that the unions and workers bet on discouraging the process of rising prices that deteriorate purchasing power and in which wages lose against inflation. In this direction, the leader expressed that he will accompany “any measure that contributes to lowering” the increase in values.
And he does not intend to accept that wages “are an adjustment variable”, from his point of view, the causes because of the escalation of prices have nothing to do with the remuneration of workers. For Martínez, the rise in values has to do with “uncertainty and lack of macroeconomic predictability, political instability or lack of legal certainty.” “Inflation is the tax on poverty since wage earners and low-income sectors are the ones who suffer the most,” he completed.
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