The Buenos Aires government convened this Friday the unions that represent central administration workers and teachers to start the 2023 salary discussion. The first meeting of the year it will be next tuesday.
The first meeting at the provincial Ministry of Labor will be with the teacher unions at 10, according to union sources confirmed to 0221.com.ar. The call was sent to the Teaching Unit Front, which is made up of the Single Union of Education Workers (SUTEBA), the Federation of Buenos Aires Educators (FEB), the Argentine Union of Private Teachers (SADOP), the Union of Teachers of Buenos Aires (UDOCBA) and the Association of Technical Teaching Teachers (AMET), among other unions that participate in this joint venture.
Meanwhile, at 2:00 p.m. it will be the turn of the unions that represent the state unions included in Law 10,430, among them the Association of State Workers (ATE), the Union of Civilian Personnel of the Nation (UPCN), the Federation of State and Private Guilds of the Province (FEGEPPBA) and doctors from the Association of Health Professionals of the Province of Buenos Aires (CICOP).
The holder of ATE Province, Oscar De IsasiHe announced that at the table they will ask for salary recomposition so as not to lose purchasing power in the face of inflation, but also recategorizations and transfers to the plant that are pending. “We are going to go with the idea of deepening the path of recovery of the purchasing power of wages, that is, that state-owned workers continue to recover what we lost during the government of María Eugenia Vidal. In this framework, it is important to improve the quality of the basic salary so that it has an impact on seniority and the salary pyramid takes shape again and hierarchizes the administrative career, without neglecting the most neglected sectors that must have special treatment in raising the amount of salaries,” he specified.
The leader said that “it is also important to raise the amounts of family allowances and the ceilings to improve the payment of allowances and not limit salary increases.”
Regarding the transfers, De Isasi considered that “we are on the way to ensure that all the workers transfer to a permanent plant, including those who entered in the year 2022. We understand that it is very important that at the end of the management of Axel Kicillof end job insecurity, this is a permanent will that the unions and the Government have shown”.
