The Mexico City Metro and the National Union of Workers of the Collective Transportation System reached an agreement for a salary increase this Tuesday, thus avoiding the strike called for Thursday, October 14.
In the negotiation between both parties, an increase in salary and benefits was agreed, as well as the one-time payment of a bonus.
In an information card and after days of speculation about the realization of the strike that the union had called a “collective offense”, the Metro management confirmed that a salary increase of 3.2%, 1.8% in benefits and the bonus of 1,074.71 pesos “in recognition of the workers for their performance.”
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The agreed increases will be retroactive to January 1, 2021, “with prior authorization from the Secretariat of Administration and Finance of Mexico City.”
With these increases in perceptions, the Metro management indicated, “the individual and collective performance of the personnel working in the organization” is favored, which exceeds 15 thousand people.
“The STC expresses its unrestricted respect for the workers that make up its workforce, who in the health emergency stage were essential to maintain the service of the Metro network, a neuralgic means of transport for Mexico City and the Metropolitan area,” he said. in a communication the parastatal company directed by Guillermo Calderón.
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And he added: “the agreements generated in this negotiation were reached through respectful dialogue, highlighting respect for labor rights, acting with ethics, justice and austerity; therefore, with this increase, the Collective Transport System reiterates its commitment to improve the general conditions of workers ”.
Other demands of the majority union of the Metro is the delivery of work clothes, tools and spare parts to maintain the trains and facilities. Also that they be included in the processes of rehabilitation of Line 12 and in the modernization of Line 1 of the Metro, scheduled for next year.
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