The union led by Unai Sordo plans to validate the agreement today establishing a 4% increase in 2023 and 3% for 2024 and 2025.
The wage agreement adopted between the CEOE and the CC unions. oo. and UGT will be signed this Wednesday, according to what the president of the Spanish employers’ association, Antonio Garamendi, has advanced.
The agreement, which establishes increases of 4% for 2023 and 3% for 2024 and 2025, will be endorsed today by CC. ooh., as the business associations and UGT did yesterday. The union led by Unai Sordo has met its Confederal Committee this morning and its Confederal Council, the highest body between congresses, starting at 3:00 p.m.
Garamendi has confirmed that neither the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, nor the Second Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, will be invited to the signing ceremony. As he explained, it is a bipartite agreement, which is the exclusive responsibility of unions and business.
The president of the CEOE has qualified the agreement of agreements reached with CC. oo. and UGT of “very important”, since it generates social peace, which is “the greatest infrastructure that a country can have”.
The salary pact, formally called the V Interconfederal Agreement for Employment and Collective Bargaining (AENC), is a text in which unions and the business community collect recommendations for their collective agreement negotiators, which often include both a salary path and other employment-related matters, for example recruitment issues. It is not mandatorybut it serves as a guide for both parties when they sit down to negotiate a collective agreement.
The negotiation of a new agreement had been stalled since May 2022, when the employers refused to include salary review clauses linked to inflation to guarantee purchasing power, something that the unions were demanding.
Source: Eitb
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