The times for the government of Rolando Figueroa calls for his first salary negotiation with the state unions they begin to tighten and yesterday the general secretary of ATE, Carlos Quintriqueohe demanded that two cabinet officials do so “urgently”. The state authorities have already collected the last tranche of the agreement signed for 2023 and warned that a new guideline must be negotiated for this year, especially given the proximity of the start of classes.
Yesterday the leader sent a note to Minister of Government, Jorge Tobares, and Minister of Economy, Guillermo Koeniga note in which he recalled that “the 2023 agreement has reached its conclusion” and that, “as we are already in the month of February, we have not had a call from the government to call for a salary guideline for the current year.”
The last recomposition was paid with January salaries and was 40% corresponding to inflation for the November-December two-month period. Until now, both ATE and the rest of the state unions have anticipated that They will seek to maintain the update of salaries tied to the Consumer Price Index (CPI)but the government knows that this mechanism is difficult to sustain in a context of budgetary constraints.
Quintriqueo stated in the note that the salary negotiation It should be called “urgently”especially “taking into account the instability and high inflation that has been depreciating our salary.”
The leader’s request arrived yesterday at the Government House offices, but until This Tuesday he had not received a response from officials.
The 2023 salary agreement showed an average accumulated increase of 209.73% in total for state employees.
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The increase in assistance and retirement contributions to the Social Security Institute of Neuquén (ISSN) actually implied a salary reduction for state employees starting in January, so the government will have to face that discussion when it opens the negotiation.
The unions have already warned that They will ask for a “recovery” of the six points extra that began to be deducted from decree 79/2024 of Figueroa and even yesterday there was a administrative resource to seek its annulment.
The unions that make up the Gremial Front participated in this action, including ATEN, UPCN, Sejun, ANEL, Fasemp, Siprosapune, Unavp and Sitramune. The only one that is not part of that organization is ATE.