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The Secretary of Union Action and Employment of , Mari Cruz Vicente , has pointed out that the gap between the rise in the CPI in December, 3.1% year-on-year) and the salary increase agreed in the agreementsmust be corrected in collective bargaining, “so that workers are not the ones who suffer the consequences.The general Consumer Price Index (CPI) rises to year-on-year in December, one percentage point more than in November, and its highest level since . This month it is again the increases in the price of electricity that explain the strong acceleration of year-on-year inflation. The average variation in inflation during 2021 has been double the agreed average salary increaseCore inflation – without energy or unprocessed food – rose four tenths to 2.1% year-on-year (0.8% on annual average), and is percentage points below the general CPI, the highest difference in the historical series. In the situation report of the Economic Cabinet of , corresponding to the month of December, it is noted that second-round effects on inflation are already detected that come “from the increase in prices to try to maintain business margins that reached historical maximums just before the pandemic.
The average variation in inflation during 2021 has been 3.1%, double the agreed average salary increase The current rise in inflation , the report points out, responds in part “to exogenous conjunctural factors Malta Phone Number derived from international geopolitical tensions, the recovery of pent-up demand after the stoppage due to the pandemic and certain bottlenecks in production and supply chains. The forecast is that in mid-2022 these pressures will ease and stop driving inflation up.” The union denounces that the strong increase in electricity year-on-year) and other energy products (gas, fuel) continues while "the Government limits itself to putting "patches" to try to limit the impact of the increases (decreases). temporary VAT and other taxes) while it does not act with the necessary forcefulness and urgency on the causes that generate them.” For , some of these causes are not exogenous and respond to "oligopoly practices of the large electricity and energy companies in Spain", and to the mechanisms of shaping electricity prices "which are far above their costs, generating extraordinary benefits at the expense of homes and the productive fabric.
December , registered collective agreements cover million workers, a figure lower than in previous years. The average agreed salary increase is lower than last year, and practically all workers have increases below average inflation in have agreed increases of positive increases below increases between 1 and 2%, 17% have agreed increases between 2.01 and 3%. Furthermore, only 6% of workers with an agreement in force have agreed upon initial increases above 3%, which means that, in the absence of salary safeguard clauses, the vast majority of the salaried population covered by a collective agreement will lose purchasing power in 2021. Some causes are not exogenous and respond to “oligopoly practices of the large electrical and energy companies in Spain” The CCOO confederal Economic Cabinet highlights that high inflation, concentrated in the rise of basic goods and supplies (electricity, fuel and food), together with the growing cost of housing, has worsened the purchasing power of the population and the productive fabric, “ especially harming households with lower incomes that must face these basic needs.
The average variation in inflation during 2021 has been 3.1%, double the agreed average salary increase The current rise in inflation , the report points out, responds in part “to exogenous conjunctural factors Malta Phone Number derived from international geopolitical tensions, the recovery of pent-up demand after the stoppage due to the pandemic and certain bottlenecks in production and supply chains. The forecast is that in mid-2022 these pressures will ease and stop driving inflation up.” The union denounces that the strong increase in electricity year-on-year) and other energy products (gas, fuel) continues while "the Government limits itself to putting "patches" to try to limit the impact of the increases (decreases). temporary VAT and other taxes) while it does not act with the necessary forcefulness and urgency on the causes that generate them.” For , some of these causes are not exogenous and respond to "oligopoly practices of the large electricity and energy companies in Spain", and to the mechanisms of shaping electricity prices "which are far above their costs, generating extraordinary benefits at the expense of homes and the productive fabric.
December , registered collective agreements cover million workers, a figure lower than in previous years. The average agreed salary increase is lower than last year, and practically all workers have increases below average inflation in have agreed increases of positive increases below increases between 1 and 2%, 17% have agreed increases between 2.01 and 3%. Furthermore, only 6% of workers with an agreement in force have agreed upon initial increases above 3%, which means that, in the absence of salary safeguard clauses, the vast majority of the salaried population covered by a collective agreement will lose purchasing power in 2021. Some causes are not exogenous and respond to “oligopoly practices of the large electrical and energy companies in Spain” The CCOO confederal Economic Cabinet highlights that high inflation, concentrated in the rise of basic goods and supplies (electricity, fuel and food), together with the growing cost of housing, has worsened the purchasing power of the population and the productive fabric, “ especially harming households with lower incomes that must face these basic needs.