The president of the Independent Trade Union Center and Civil Servants (CSIF), Miguel Borra, has announced the intensification of the mobilizations of public employees throughout the month of September in the face of what he describes as "labor unrest and the deterioration of public services."
This is how they described it today from the union headquarters in which they affirm that there is a "chronic structural deficit of personnel aggravated by retirements and the aging of our workforce", a circumstance that causes fewer and fewer employees to assume a greater burden of tasks without improvements in their conditions.
The union organization has defended that the administrations are "tense" and warns that "when a crisis happens, we can see the seams."
The CSIF statements come at a delicate moment for the Government of Pedro Sánchez, at the beginning of the political course in which the Executive already faces a series of flanks that directly involve public management. In which the same union has mentioned: health and school management, the situation of officials in the forest fire campaign, the progressive deterioration that impacts Correos and the current migratory crisis in Ceuta.
For Borra, political instability and a lack of General State Budgets for more than four years make it difficult to address key reforms such as health, education, justice or the postal service. Given this, he has maintained that "political instability cannot be the permanent excuse to maintain degraded public services."
The organization has already begun to set a schedule of demonstrations to put pressure on Sánchez's management in the coming months and in advance of a general election that is approaching on May 23, 2027.
The mobilization campaign scheduled for autumn will begin in education on September 15 with a rally in front of the education ministry. CSIF protests an "interim rate of 30%" and criticizes an "unaffordable delay in lowering ratios" that will not arrive until the 2027-2028 school year. In the health field, they demand a national plan to reduce waiting lists and structural reinforcement.
In the case of Correos, they denounce the non-compliance with the 2024 personnel agreements and call for protests on September 3 and 17, which will culminate with a demonstration in Madrid on the 30th. What's more, yesterday CSIF already concentrated in different municipalities in the face of this crisis that the state company is suffering.
Finally, the union will present complaints in Brussels in the week of September 21 about the situation in Ceuta, stating that the overflow of local services "exceeds not only the autonomous city, but also affects the entire European Union."
Pressure on commitments
One of the issues that has become more relevant for the union is the Executive's commitment agenda. One of them is with the Ministry of Public Function headed by Óscar López to reactivate the Framework Agreement signed in November 2025.
The CSIF spokesperson explained that they will monitor the execution of the agreed salary increase of 4.5% for 2027, together with the variable increase of 0.5% linked to inflation and applicable retroactively from January 1, 2026, ensuring that "public salaries will be increased in year 27 by 5%."
In turn, Borra has demanded compliance with improvements in administrative mutualism, compensation for residence before the end of the 2026 financial year and the streamlining of selective processes for opponents that, according to complaints, take up to three years from the offer of public employment to taking possession of the job.
The implementation of the 35-hour work day remains one of the sources of conflict and mobilization for the union. As detailed, there are "problems adapting the 35 hours by department" within the General State Administration, pointing out the difficulties in areas such as Penitentiary Institutions. Likewise, the union organization denounces the "non-compliance with the 2024 agreement" by the management of the Post Office, an agreement that, according to its statements, included this hourly limit along with the reinforcement of staff and the conversion of part-time contracts to full-time contracts.
On the other hand, the Union has announced the entry of an appeal for the return of the salary structure prior to the 2010 cuts during the time of the Government of the former president, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
The Secretary of Union Action of CSIF, Francisco Lama, has argued that that extraordinary salary cut, applied to reduce the public deficit, continues to be integrated "permanently" sixteen years later. The union has calculated that the measure has meant a cumulative withholding of "48,000 million euros" for the group, translating into an average annual loss of 1,000 euros per public employee.
