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The CGTP admitted this Saturday that the “short term” it requires to reach 850 euros of the national minimum wage (SMN) does not have to correspond to January 2021 and recognized that the general wage increase is open to negotiations.
“We are not demanding 850 euros in January 2021, we are demanding that we go quickly to those 850 euros,” said the general secretary of the CGTP-IN, Isabel Camarinha, in statements to journalists at the end of the combative action that the organized inter-union this Saturday in Lisbon in defense of salary increases.
The CGTP has been calling for a general increase in salaries by 90 euros and an increase in the SMN to 850 euros in the “short term”, and this Saturday acknowledged that this short term may not be January 2021.
“For 2021 we have a proposal that is to raise the salary of all workers with reference to 90 euros. We believe that the increase in the minimum wage has to be significant, ”said Isabel Camarinha, denying that companies cannot make this effort and that even those who are in greater difficulty due to the covid-19 pandemic can receive support to overcome these difficulties without avoiding a salary increase.
Isabel Camarinha also rejected that the SMN increase in 2021 could be less than what happened this year, of 35 euros.
The Prime Minister and the Government have already been saying that they want to reach the value of 750 euros at the end of the legislature, which for us is very insufficient, and that in 2021 there may not be conditions for an increase equal to what happened in 2020. The CGTP considers this to be very insufficient. If they are 90 euros or less, we are available to negotiate, as we are available to negotiate with employers, with companies, salary increases for workers in different sectors, “said Union leader.
Already during her speech that put an end to the combative action on Saturday, Isabel Camarinha had considered “unacceptable” that they did not want to “substantially increase the SMN” and said that the CGTP would continue to fight for a “substantial increase.”
In a speech marked by criticism of the bosses who took advantage of the pandemic to cut or limit the rights of workers, Isabel Camarinha also defended that the next State Budget should “take breaks” in the treatment given to workers. officials, “without career prospects” and who are “less and less for necessities.”
The general secretary of the CGTP also defended “a break with the weak public investment”, which depends to a large extent on community funds.
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