Regular and alternate representatives of workers and employers will meet this Thursday, November 9, at 15:00 in Quito, to start talks on a single basic wage (SBU) that will be in effect in 2024. The current wage is $450.
“Employers’ delegates, of which there are four and their four substitutes, and all delegates of the trade union headquarters, of which there are as many, and the Government will arrive at the Ministry of Labor,” said the national president of the Ecuadorian confederation. Organizations Unitarian Workers Classics (Cedocut), Mesías Tatamuez.
Workers are asking for the SBU to equal the vital basket, $550, while business owners are looking to overcome technical posts.
The leader, who will act as one of the main representatives of the workers, indicated that the position of this union remains that the salary is equal to that of the vital basket: 550 dollars.
On the employers’ side, it has been suggested that technical views prevail in defining the SBU, although the Ecuadorian Business Committee (CEE) has suggested that it be left in the hands of the new government if the parties do not reach an agreement.
However, the outgoing Government announced that, if there is no consensus, it will leave it fixed at $475, i.e. increase it by $25, thus fulfilling the pre-election offer of collecting $25 every year in power.
The basic salary enters the center of the debate
“The government fulfilled its obligation. Meets its commitment to increase by $25 each year. The last two years it was 25 and 25 dollars, and this year it will meet the goal which is proportional, a new dividend of 25 dollars, it cannot be at 500 dollars because it was the fourth year, and this Government has an early departure. , constitutional and legal. This year, which suits us, we will conclude with a proposal that the equivalent amount reach 475 dollars, because this is the thesis of the Government and an electoral commitment,” commented the Minister of the Government, Henry Cucalón, in an interview with this newspaper, last October.
At this first meeting, says Tatamuez, they hope to receive all the reports that the Workers’ Council must submit to them in order to see how many sectoral commissions have been functioning.
Source: Eluniverso
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