The Government continues to push the deadlines to approve measures of social and economic significance before the elections. The first to move was Vice President Yolanda Díaz, activating the process in an accelerated manner to be able to carry out the increase in the interprofessional minimum wage (SMI) before November 29. And now it is the Minister of Public Function, Óscar López, who is moving with the officials, who are demanding that he issue by decree the salary improvement agreed for public employees before 29-N. Meanwhile, the Executive is looking for a way to raise pensions before the end of the year, even if it is while it is in office after the electoral call.
In total, in these first stages of the electoral pre-campaign, the Executive is winking at more than 15 million citizens, including recipients of the SMI (2.5 million), pensioners (9.5 million) and, now, civil servants, who are more than three million. After several days of pressure from public employee unions, the Ministry of Public Function has called a meeting next Tuesday, October 20, as announced by the CSIF civil servants union center and sources from López's department confirm to EL MUNDO.
"Following the request of CSIF, the Public Service convenes this Tuesday, October 20, the monitoring commission of the Framework Agreement on working conditions," the union chaired by Miguel Borra announced this Friday. CCOO and UGT have also put pressure on these days. Just yesterday, the Public Area of CCOO sent a letter to the minister in which it requests an express response on compliance with the agreement signed between the Government and the union organizations at the end of last year, which contemplated a path of salary increases for several years, from 2025 to 2028.
The Framework Agreement for the improvement of public employment and citizen service, signed by CCOO, UGT and CSIF, contemplates a fixed increase of 2.5% in 2025, a fixed increase of 1.5% and another variable increase of 0.5% in 2026, with retroactive effects from January and conditional on the final result of the CPI, a fixed increase of 4.5% in 2027 and 2% in 2028. And in view of the election call, the unions are asking the Government to activate the salary improvement planned for next year now.
López himself has publicly committed that he will do "everything possible" before leaving the Government after the general elections on November 29 so that next year 3.5 million civil servants see their salaries increased. In an interview on TVE last week, the minister stated that the raise for public employees is agreed with the union organizations, although he specified that the Government must "materialize" it and execute the corresponding decisions.
Now, after pressure from the unions, the minister has called them to a meeting, although his team avoids attributing the call exclusively to the request for an immediate salary increase. "The salary increase for public employees was agreed upon in the Framework Agreement for the Improvement of Public Employment and Citizen Service for the period (2025-2028). This agreement established the creation of a monitoring commission, with equal representation of the Administration and all of the signatory trade union organizations, for the analysis and development of the measures provided for in this framework agreement. This commission meets periodically for this purpose," indicate sources from the Ministry.
