The pace of negotiations does not stop in 2023. Year-end bonus and increases of more than 100%, among the keys to salary discussions
For iProfessional
04/01/2023 – 8:45 p.m.
The pace that the parities maintained during 2022 will not stop in this new year. Without going further, three of the unions that bring together the most workers will insist on reopening their parities in January to achieve salary increases and the delivery of extra reinforcements.
National commerce, bank and state employees They are the union groups that will negotiate with the Minister of Labor, Kelly Olmos, in the first 30 days of 2023.
Paritarias 2023: commerce, state and banking will seek salary increases in January
trade clerks
In the middle of the month, the union with the most affiliates in the country will start negotiations. The Federation of Commerce and Services Employees (FAECYS) led by Armando Cavalieri will review the last agreement reached in August 2022 Y will seek to achieve increases of between 100% and 110% per year, a figure reached by other large unions such as the UOM, Truckers and UOCRA
The $24,000 bonus, highly criticized by business chambers, It will be another of the keys to the discussion. In this sense, the union group will try to move forward and get that bonus for those who earn salaries of less than $186,000 in hand. The last increase decreed for mercantile workers was 11%, in November, out of a total of 59.5% since the beginning of the parity year.
This discussion will be taken as a reference by other sectors, as it is the largest union in the private sector.
banking
Another of the key unions in the trade union world, and which will try to avoid a further loss of purchasing power in January, is the one that involves bank workers. The body headed by Sergio Palazzo will wait to know the inflation percentage for December (which will be known on the 12th of this month), to appear at the offices of the Labor portfolio. They would close a short deal, with salary updates for January, February and March.
The banking union, led by Palazzo, will seek a new update on his salary in January.
In September, the bankers agreed to a salary increase of 94.1% -which placed them at the top of the best negotiations up to that moment- plus a bonus of $185,000. In January, andThe basic salary for the sector will become $230,000 plus additional ones.
national state
UPCN and ATE will resume dialogue with government officials, as agreed in September last year, when they signed to advance the quotas of 10% to November and January and the payment of a bond of $30,000, in December.
Employees of this union will receive a mega bonus of $ 214,000
Beyond the deterioration of purchasing power due to the impact caused by inflation, by dint of tough negotiations some sectors are gaining on the cost of living. Such is the case of the Telecommunications Union Unity Board (MUS) that closed an agreement with the directors of the main companies in the sector (Telefónica, Telecom and Movistar, among others)which consists of a 15 percent salary increase that must be applied to the scales established in each category by July 2022 for each employee and telephone employee.
But this is not all, since they got a additional sum of up to 20,100 pesos (also according to the categories) and during this month, they will receive a super bonus of 214,086 pesos for Telephone Worker’s Day.
The representatives of the different telephone unions have managed to salary negotiation is established quarterly, which allows them to closely follow the evolution of wages in relation to inflation. “At shorter periods, the loss of purchasing power is limited,” union sources explained.
That 15 percent agreed to be paid with February wages and corresponds to the first two months of the year. They also confirmed that in the middle of next month they will meet with employers to analyze the salary situation of workers in the sector.
