One of the unions that brings together the state employees of Buenos Aires asked Governor Axel Kicillof for advance payment of the salary increase scheduled for the month of July.
Through a letter addressed to the Buenos Aires Minister of Labor, Walter Correa, the Federation of State and Private Unions of the province of Buenos Aires (FEGEPPBA) raised the “URGENT call to the salary parity table, in which the advancement of the established guideline, for the month of July to the month of May”, at the time of reopening “negotiations in the month of July” based on the evolution of inflation.
The text mentions that in the agreement reached on February 27, a monitoring, follow-up and reopening clause scheduled for the month of August was established, but “in the event that the inflationary path deviates from the projections that gave rise to this agreement, the reopening may be brought forward”, establishing that such advancement may be carried out in the month of May.
“As it is public knowledge, the aforementioned inflationary projections will be exceeded once the inflationary indices corresponding to the months of March and April are published,” the letter adds, stating that this generates “the consequent damage, purchasing loss, of the salaries of the and Workers”.
Faced with this scenario, which is from FEGEPPBA, they require “the URGENT call to the salary parity table, in which the advancement of the pattern established for the month of July to the month of May and the reopening of the negotiation in the month of July”, and also “the immediate call to the committed sector tables”.
The letter closes by lamenting that “the scourge of inflation puts us in this disvaluable circumstance for all Argentines”, hoping that the requirement has a correlative on the part of the authorities “attentive to the sensitivity of the issue in question, because it is at stake issues of a food nature, which do not admit further delay”.
The salary agreement reached in February contemplates an increase of 20% in March, another 6% in May and, finally, 14% in July, accumulating up to 40%.
