Government delays start of collective bargaining

Union leaders in the public sector have denounced obstacles to the advancement of the Collective negotiation (law no. 31188). After presenting their order documents 7 months ago and install the Commission on May 10, even the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) does not present the financial report with the fiscal space.

This is required to be able to start the centralized negotiation, whose term ends on June 30, while the decentralized one – which depends on the previous one – on July 7. If not given in time, more than a million workers would be affected and the resources could be excluded from the budget for fiscal year 2024.

Among the main requests is the salary increase to “recover purchasing power”, which since 2021 has been lost by 69%, reported José Sandoval, spokesman for the Front of State Workers of Peru. In addition, he stressed that it also seeks to improve the balance of pensions that currently do not reach the current minimum living wage.

delay concern

Sandoval recalls that last year, for the first collective bargaining, the Executive issued the report in April, however, for this 2023 and close to the deadline, there is still no light on the subject, despite the fact that the MEF assured them of a response The dialogue table will hardly be installed.

“This law was achieved after 40 years and it has cost us a lot of sacrifice to get it out in the middle of a pandemic. The first step was taken from 2022 to 2023, but it is unfortunate that now there are no answers,” Sandoval said. He reiterated that this week the Council of Ministers could debate the rule.

State workers will mobilize

The public sector unions have announced that on Tuesday 30 May They will hold a sit-in from 7:00 am in front of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) to demand progress in the negotiation.

Likewise, on Wednesday, May 31, they will meet outside the Presidency of the Republic and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.