This Monday begins an indefinite strike by the workers of the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate, the first in its history. The convening unions -CIG, CSIF, Sitss, Sislass, UGT, UPIT and Usess- ask the Government to end the legislature in compliance with the agreement reached in July 2021 with the workforce to provide it with more troops, improve working conditions and reorganize the structure of this organism.
For its part, the CCOO, which until now had participated in all the Inspection protests, has withdrawn from the indefinite strike considering that the conflict was becoming politicized. The strike comes after the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy summoned the union platform last week to assess the latest proposal from the Treasury to modify the Organization’s List of Jobs. From the portfolio directed by Yolanda Díaz, it was ensured that the Public Function proposal did not comply with the commitments that the Government acquired two years ago and that the new offer from the Treasury does not meet the territorial needs of the organization and “concentrates its scarce efforts on reinforcing the management position template.
“It is an internal job of the Government. The ministries are not mediators with the union organizations to address a file of RTP”, they have declared to Europa Press from the Treasury. The same sources indicate, in addition, that in May of this year the inclusion was authorized in the Public Offers of Employment (OPE) for the years 2023, 2024 and 2025 of 781 new jobs in the Inspection, in addition to a new credit of 6.15 million extraordinary productivity for the entire workforce.
Additionally, to this complement is added that all the personnel of the Labor Inspectorate benefit from the salary increases contained in the Framework Agreement for a XXI Century Administration, signed with the CCOO and UGT in October 2022, which contemplates a salary increase of 3.5% in 2022, 2.5% in 2023 and 2% in 2024, together with an additional 1.5% variable. Increases that, accumulated, can reach 9.8%, recalls the Treasury.
The union organizations argue that the previous List of Inspection Jobs dates back more than 20 years, so they see it necessary to comply with what was agreed with the unions and immediately incorporate the 500 troops that had been promised. urgently and, progressively, the rest of the committed personnel.
The conflict in the body has caused a clash between the Ministries of Labor and Finance. The first blames the second for failing to comply with the commitments made to the unions in July 2021. For the unions, “it is of little use to make the disparity of criteria and confrontation clear” within the coalition government “if in the end The result is that the Labor Inspectorate continues without a solution for the deep deficits it currently suffers”.
Meanwhile, the unions with representation in the Inspectorate began a new round of mobilizations a few weeks ago, with occasional strikes, mobilizations, and paralysis of various inspection campaigns, to denounce the lack of resources in the body. “At this point, the demand for responsibilities and resignations from a government with an expiration date set for July 23 does not make sense, but that does not mean we can abandon the demand for compliance with an agreement that, for its application, does not require any normative modification, nor budgetary from the moment in which it is already contemplated in the budget recognized to the organism”, emphasize the unions.
The Inspection staff is made up of 3,000 troops, of which 2,200 are inspectors and sub-inspectors and the rest are structural personnel, who must attend to 20 million Social Security affiliates, 1.4 million companies and 10 million pensioners.
