The Council of Ministers approved on Tuesday an increase in wages by 0.5% for about three million state officials and employees. This increase, which will be applied with a retroactive character since 2024, was an obligation contained in the agreement that the government reached UGT trade unions and working commissions in October 2022, and it was due to the accumulated inflation over the past three years remained higher than 8%, as finally confirmed in January. With this increase, which is the cumulative, in this last three -year race an accumulated increase by 10%, and in 2024 more – by 2.5% more.
From the publicly accessible functions of CCOO and UGT, they showed their “satisfaction” this morning until the inevitable approval of wage adjustment. However, in a joint press release, they criticized the “delay and insufficiency” of the executive branch. “This obligation goes on with 18 months of delay,” they indicate in the statement. In this account, the trade union organizations of the total month of 2024, although it was decided that this extreme increase would be approved in accordance with the data of the IPC in January 2025 and, in any case, with a retroactive character.
In addition, these trade unions say that “it still awaits the implementation of an important part of the framework agreement for the administration of the 21st century.” In this sense, they list partial resignation -they do not agree in the parliamentary process -35 -hour day, professional classification or improvement of the 2025 remuneration.
In May, the Minister of Public Function, Oscar Lopez, promised to pay “in the near future”, this is an additional wage increase, which depends on the approval of the treasury. “This government fulfills all its obligations,” he said during the Federal Congress of Public Services UGT II. Nevertheless, trade union organizations began to tighten the executive director. UGT and CCOO were threatened in June with protests if the manager does not pay this expectation with a retroactive character, given that there was no “excuse” in order not to do this. Independent and Officials Union Central Central (CSIF) registered in the middle of the request form in Montloa to immediately pay the “expected national delay”.
