Memur-Sen statement on the increase in civil servants: We do not accept

The Public Servants Arbitration Commission ruled on the proportional increase and general articles that resulted in disagreement in the Collective Agreement of the Seventh Validity.

In a statement following the board’s decision, the chartered union Memur-Sen said: “We do not accept the decision.”

Memur-Sen’s statement noted that “The Public Employer’s proposal was determined by the ‘notarial procedure’ without being modified by the Arbitration Board” and included the following statements:

“As is known, as the Memur-Sen Confederation, we reject the percentage increase figures that are far from the reality of the Public Employer market, they do not take into account inflation expectations and data and we predict that civil servants will be crushed under inflation. ; With the Minutes of the Assembly, which included 50 articles that endorsed our achievements, we concluded the process without commitments.

Many of our offers for public servants and retirees, such as salary increases in 2024 and 2025, increase in the payment of social participation and inflation difference of the month in which the increase was approved, and help for rent, bonus for religious holidays, correction of the deteriorated salary scale, were rejected; Despite all our objections, explanations, insistent opposition and opposition votes, the Public Employer’s proposal was determined by the ‘notarial procedure’ without being modified by the Arbitration Board.”

In the statement, which states that the collective bargaining process once again demonstrated that Law No. 4688 and the structure of the Arbitration Board must be changed, it is stated that the Arbitration Board took the position of the Committee of Public Employers and decided accordingly.

The statement said the following on the matter:

“While the Arbitration Board must act fairly in terms of giving what is fair in the face of hard economic data and market realities; The Committee of Public Employers could not get out of its position in a way that does not correspond to its name and its impartiality in the Law. The Arbitration Panel of Public Servants made a decision based on the proposal of the public employer, not on the voice of the community awareness.

It has been seen once again that the Collective Bargaining Law and the Public Servants Arbitration Commission are not in a structure to support the burden of more than 6 million people. It has been revealed by our provision of the collective agreement that the current version of Law No. 4688 is in a way that does not allow the time, process and future expectations of public officials to solve their problems, and that it must be revised working with the authorized confederation. “

‘WE DO NOT ACCEPT’

Stating that it has achieved a rate above the inflation expectations of the Central Bank in all the collective bargaining concluded so far, the union said: “However, the Arbitration Panel maintained the percentage increase considering that the Employer’s percentile offer Public was adequate and enforceable, contradicting the 33 percent inflation expectation announced by the Central Bank, and has admitted that it is the “Public Employers’ Arbitration Board” with its decision that will crush its officials under inflation.

Stating that the salary increase for civil servants is below inflation expectations and forecasts, and that it is unhealthy to present the inflation gap as good news, the union announced that it did not accept the decision in the following words:

“We do not accept the decision of the Arbitration Committee/Employer, which will inflict losses on public officials, far from seeing the truth and making the right offer, and we comment on it.”