Financial Diary – Santiago
A marathon day of negotiations was experienced this Thursday between the Government and public officials. The meeting, which began during the afternoon, only ended around 3 in the morning with an agreement for the salary increase.
“We have consolidated an agreement that has been attended by all the organizations of the Public Sector Roundtable.We effectively have an agreement that fully recovers the CPI, which we will only know in a few hours, but which will also increase salaries in real terms by 0.7%.“explained the coordinator of the Public Sector Board, Carlos Insunza.
Originally, The Government had offered a nominal increase of 4.5%, compared to the 7.5% requested by officials, hoping that this would translate into a real increase of 3%.
For its part, The president of the Unitary Central of Workers (CUT), David Acuña, added that “we have been able to make progress on issues of job stability, but also on having a permanent retirement incentive.”. A historic demand of the workers of the State. Also with permanent bonuses and assignments, that is, the Christmas bonusschooling and vacation bonuses, which will be permanent. And we have also already reached a readjustment figure that covers the needs of purchasing power,” he highlighted.
Signature and details
As explained by the union leaders, andThis Friday they will sign the agreement in detail, with each of its elementsand there the specific nominal increase that public officials will receive will be established.
“We are going to go to Congress to expose it, to defend it and we want to tell the parliamentarians of all parties that what is appropriate here is to support a consolidated agreement, with a lot of effort, with high responsibility regarding the reality of the country.but above all with a view to improving the conditions of State workers, so that they can fully serve the citizens of the country, who is the one who ultimately requires you,” said Insunza.
