Governor Alberto Weretilneck confirmed that he will continue with the current fixed-sum salary scheme and remarked: “I am not going to sign an increase that puts the payment of salaries at risk, I am not going to take that irresponsible attitude that later you cannot pay or have to pay in installments.”
In dialogue with BLACK RIVER RADIO The president spoke of the national context with the growth of inflation, close to 70% since President Javier Milei took office, the devaluation, the increases in fuel and the basic food basket, but he also focused on the fall in income of the province.
“The deterioration in salaries is very strong and shocking“, he noted when listing the rise in living costs and noted that there are also complications for the State: “The province has lost 34,000 million pesos since December 10 as a result of the drop in national transfers.”yes,” he stated.
Given this scenario, he indicated that there is a “logical, reasonable, understandable claimof public workers, but we have a State that cannot carry out a salary policy that is different from the one we are carrying out.”
Weretilneck indicated that the context It worsens even more in the health sector due to the “scandalous increase in supplies and medicines” which creates inconveniences in obtaining the products and paying for them. He gave concrete examples such as the price of insulin that went from 57,000 pesos in December to 105,000 pesos currently.
He said that in Health 5,000 million pesos were invested to pay the debt and another 7,000 million pesos in purchases “and yet it seems that we have done nothing, it is really very complex.”
He stressed that Unter does not strike
At another point in the interview with BLACK RIVER RADIOWeretilneck appreciated that the Unter union last night decided not to continue with forceful measures although it admitted that the declaration of “insufficiency” of the salary proposal “means that it does not agree in its entirety with the proposal we made, but generates an environment inclined to continue exploring solutions for education workers.”
He also said that in the coming days Unter’s request for a new joint venture will be responded to.
After the UNter Congress, the Government announced – without a defined date – that call but also the payment of the bonus of 60,000 pesos that it had already promised to the rest of the state workers.
Weretilneck indicated that “as long as there is no measure of force, dialogue is fueled” and stressed that ATE and UPCN do not carry out direct actions either.