The current amounts of the SMVM and unemployment were decided for the last time on March 21.
The national government, the three workers’ federations and the companies are debating this Thursday a new amount of the Minimum, Vital and Mobile Wage (SMVM) and unemployment benefitswithin the framework of the call of the Ministry of Labor to the Salary Council, and the CGT and the CTA negotiate “a common proposal” to increase the minimum.
The Labor portfolio, in charge of Raquel Olmos, summoned trade unionists and businessmen to discuss an update of the minimum and unemployment benefits in a regular session at 4:00 p.m., virtually, and then there will be a second meeting to set the new amounts , according to article 135 of Law 24,013.
The general secretary of the CTA, Hugo Yasky, had told Télam that the plant was discussing with the CGT to present this Thursday a “common proposal for an increase” in the minimum wage, for which reason he had chosen not to risk figures in the context of these negotiations..
Raquel Olmos. Photo: Press (file).
For its part, the CTA-Autónoma, led by Hugo “Cachorro” Godoy, announced that the proposal it will present is for an increase of “50 or 60%” over the month of June and that it will be reviewed in October, in addition to accompanying that claim with a “national day of struggle” with mobilization to the Ministry of Labor.
“If the Council set a value that meets the basic needs of a worker or worker, the SMVM should be at 233,000 pesos and we are far from that because we should have an increase of 170 percent,” Godoy said in a statement.
The current amounts of the SMVM and unemployment were decided for the last time on March 21Therefore, since April 1 of this year the minimum was 80,342 pesos, in May it increased to 84,512 and, in June, to 87,987 pesos, based on the agreement between the parties, who agreed to an increase of 15, 6%, 6% and 5%, respectively.
in the meeting The business chambers of the various activities, the CGT and both CTAs will participate.
At last March’s meeting, the proposal to increase the minimum was approved by 30 votes, the Yasky CTA abstained and the Autonomous CTA rejected it, an occasion on which trade unionists and businessmen agreed to the call for this Thursday.
Photo: Pablo Añeli.
Social organizations march to Work and Economy to demand an increase in the minimum wage
Social and political organizations grouped in the Autonomous CTA, the Darío Santillán Popular Front and the Fighting Organizations Front (FOL) gathered in the vicinity of the Labor and Economy ministries, where they demanded “an immediate and reasonable increase in the minimum wage , vital and mobile” (SMVM), hours before the meeting held by government officials, representatives of trade unions and businessmen to agree on a new salary floor.
From 11.30, militants of the Popular Front Darío Santillán -with the support of the CTA-A- and the Front of Organizations in Struggle (FOL) concentrated on the corners of the 9 de Julio avenues in Buenos Airesat its intersection with Avenida de Mayo and on 9 de Julio and Independencia.
Other groups gathered to march in the vicinity of the Obelisk to later converge on the ministerial headquarters.
As reported, the protesters later arrived at the headquarters of the labor portfolio, located at Leandro N. Alem 650, to demand an increase in the minimum wage, which “is currently at 88,000 pesos, that is, below the basic food basket , and is currently at 99,000 pesos”.
“We want to ask the representatives of the different unions present to be up to the situation,” said Dina Sánchez, a referent of the Darío Santillán Popular Front, in a press release.
Meanwhile, members of the FOL gathered on Avenida de Mayo and 9 de Julio to march towards the headquarters of the Ministry of Economy, (Hipólito Yrigoyen 250), where they will ask to be received by its owner, Sergio Massa, and then they will demonstrate in front of I work “to demand that the minimum, vital and mobile salary beat inflation.”
“We want an increase that will lead us to recover what wages have lost in recent years. We also demand the distribution of working hours: work six hours, to work all, without lowering wages,” they indicated from the FOL in a statement.
Marianela Navarro, national delegate of the FOL expressed: “Today we are mobilizing throughout the country. In Buenos Aires we not only convoke at the doors of the Ministry of Labor, before the Salary Council, but we will also go to the doors of the Ministry of Economy, for the candidate Sergio Massa to give us a meeting, since the situation that millions of workers are experiencing is critical, of absolute poverty and precariousness”.
In statements to the press, the head of the CTA-A, Hugo ‘Cachorro’ Godoy opined: “The attitude of the Government, the UIA and the CGT authorities in the last meetings to discuss wages have made the minimum wage vital and mobile is below the line of indigence today”.
“The situation in the face of these indigence wages must be overcome and that is what with the mobilization we have come to demand from the Government and the businessmen, that we have the possibility that the vital and mobile minimum wage comply with what is established by the National Constitution: A worker’s salary must cover the basic needs of the worker’s family and for that he must earn 233,000 pesos and to reach that we should achieve an increase of 170%,” claimed the unionist.
Photo: Pablo Añeli.
