The Buenos Aires Government will formalize in the next few hours the call to the state and teacher unions to start the 2023 salary negotiation before the end of January. The call, as they advanced to 0221.com.ar from the executive it would be for next tuesday.
The ATE, UPCN and FEGEPPBA unions that represent the state unions of the central administration demanded this week by note to the Minister of Labor, Walter Correabe called to start the negotiation, as the governor had promised Axel Kicillof at the last meeting of the year, on December 29.
The call that will be made in the next few hours would include the workers included in Law 10,430 and also the teachers of the Unity Front, which make up SUTEBA, FEB, SADOP, AMET and UDOCBA to comply with the commitment of the Executive in the last meeting parity.
In the letter sent this week to Correa, ATE asked that “the 2023 collective bargaining be called immediately in accordance with what was agreed in the last joint meeting in December 2022.” He also considered that “this has to be a year in which the path of recovery of the purchasing power of wages is consolidated. We state officials need it and we deserve it for the role we have been fulfilling.”
Meanwhile, UPCN maintained in the letter sent to the labor portfolio that the call for parities is “essential” for the workers enrolled in Law 10,430 -central administration- to start the dialogue as soon as possible “taking into account that the salary guideline of this sector begins in January and the economic reality of the country does not allow delays for those of us who have to defend the pockets of our colleagues”.
In 2022, the parity with state officials and teachers closed on December 29 with a 7% increase that raised the increase floor to 97% for central administration workers. Meanwhile, also within Law 10,430, the increases for educational assistants were between 104% and 105.7%, while teachers averaged 103% and doctors 102%, thus beating official inflation, which closed at 94.8%.
