Just hours after the INDEC announced that inflation for the first month of the year reached 6%, the
Kirchnerism
decided to return to the charge with its demand for an improvement in the income of workers that offset the rise in prices and demanded the generalization of
a fixed-sum increase
that accompanies the increases that are set in parity by sector.
The K proposal puts more pressure on the strategy that the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, launched since January, so that the salary agreements round off a pattern of increases of 60% per year, in line with the inflation projected in the Budget, with the commitment to anchor expectations in the midst of an election year.
The idea of an additional fixed sum to the parity increases was one of the axes of the meeting that this Wednesday the deputy
Máximo Kirchner
shared , together with the referent of La Cámpora Andrés "Cuervo" Larroque, with a
group of unions allied to Kirchnerism
in the headquarters of the Buenos Aires Graphic Federation.
Máximo Kirchner met with a group of unions aligned with Kirchnerism.
The head of the UOM,
Abel Furlán
;
the leaders
Sergio Palazzo
(banking), Vanesa Siley (judicial) and the owner of the house Héctor Amichetti, representing the Federal Workers' Current;
in addition to the moyanista Omar Plaini;
the referents of the CTA
Hugo Yasky
, Roberto Baradel and Sonia Alesso;
and Axel Kicillof's Minister of Labor,
Walter Correa
.
In the run-up to the first meeting of the Frente de Todos political table, which will meet this Thursday afternoon at the PJ's national headquarters convened by President Alberto Fernández, the group of trade unionists spoke at the meeting on the need to "
to break with the proscription
that the judicial corporation, at the request of the economic groups, imposes on Cristina Kirchner", and joined the operative clamor that the K sectors feed in favor of a candidacy for the vice president
in
the face of the next elections.
But the conversation also advanced on the analysis of the economic situation and the deterioration of the purchasing power of wages due to the rise in prices.
The inflation data for January that INDEC released this Tuesday deepened the concern of unionists aligned with Cristina and the claims against Massa
amid rumors of an imminent announcement of measures
to improve workers' income.
According to the information that goes through the union corridors, the Minister of Economy will order an
increase in the universe of workers who collect family allowances
(around 900,000 new beneficiaries are mentioned) and is also evaluating a scheme to reduce the tax burden
on Earnings
over wages, two insistent claims by trade unionists.
But the K unions are pressing to incorporate a direct improvement on the pockets into the package of measures and raise the alternative of an increase under the
fixed sum
format .
Massa's visit to the CGT
This scheme, however, is
resisted both by Massa and by the majority sectors of the CGT
(the "fat" groups, "independents" and the Barrionuevismo) that next Wednesday the 23rd will receive the minister at the headquarters of the workers' union to analyze the economic and social scenario, and oil the strategy for the parities, in a photo that will show the enthusiasm of a good part of the trade union world with the
possibility of a presidential candidacy for the leader of the Frente Renovador
.
Sergio Massa will meet on Wednesday the 23rd with the board of directors of the CGT.
The meeting will also serve to underpin the Massista plan for this year's salary negotiations.
After having reached an agreement with a group of large unions in mid-January to advance in a
guideline of 60% per year
, with two semi-annual agreements of around 30% and with the guarantee of review, the minister managed to have this scheme imposed in the agreement between the administration of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and the Buenos Aires municipal governments and in the parity of the bus drivers, which was negotiated by the head of the UTA, Roberto Fernández.
Now Massa's expectation focuses on the
ongoing discussion in the banking sector
.
There, the union led by Palazzo endorses the alternative of a 30% increase for the first semester (in three sections), but threatens a strike on February 28 if it does not reach an understanding so that financial institutions compensate their workers for a part of the salary deductions due to the impact of the Income Tax.
look too
After threatening a strike, the UTA agreed to a six-month increase of 29.47% with a review clause in July
The CGT asks Kirchnerism for "broadness" so that all sectors of the PJ join the political table
