Kamu-Sen inflationary reaction: civil servants’ increases should be reviewed

In his written statement, Turkish Kamu-Sen President Önder Kahveci stated that taking into account the announced inflation figures, all the months in the past go against public employees.

Kahveci stated that the decline in civil servants’ salaries continued rapidly in the July-December period and that although there are 3 months left in the year, the inflation difference is already 18.04 percent.

PURCHASING POWER WILL DECREASE

Kahveci noted that the decrease in salaries of civil servants is expected to be 30 to 35 percent in the remaining 3-month period and stated that the purchasing power of civil servants will further decrease with increases in mandatory expenditures, increases in the exchange rate, fuel oil and other items.

Kahveci stated that if the course of inflation continues in this way in 2024, the wage increase rate of 15 + 10 percent proposed in the negotiations of the Public Collective Agreement of the seventh period will be extremely insufficient, and said: “These rates, which “They do not coincide with the realities of the market and the purchasing power of civil servants and retirees must be reviewed and increased.” “It is our priority demand,” he stated.

Kahveci said: “We affirm once again that an increase equal to the inflation difference is a zero increase and demand that the application of welfare sharing, which we have been expressing for a long time, be implemented again quickly. “The solution to the economic problems of our officials involves a salary increase above inflation, compensation for the losses of the past period and the implementation of a part of social assistance that will increase their purchasing power,” he stated. (AA)