Trade unions in the industry radio and television are in negotiation of their law contract, in order to reach a salary increase of 12 percent. The objective is to benefit more than 30,000 workers, and whose summons to strike, to more than 1400 companies, expires at the last minute of next January 31.
Patricio Flores Sandoval, general secretary of the Industrial Union of Television and Radio Workers and Artists (SITATYR), stated that the demand for the salary increase also includes the request to improve labor benefits in all 1,410 companies in the sector in the country. ; and stressed that “industry workers have remained at their jobs every day that this pandemic has lasted, given that the provision of the service is a priority for the population.”
The request for an increase is above the 9% that was approved directly in the minimum wages for this 2022 (without considering the figure of the Independent Recovery Amount); but it is in line with the behavior of inflation that closed above 7%; Therefore, the union representatives estimated that the salary demand is in accordance with the economic times and the needs of the workers.
The negotiations are carried out in the National Chamber of the Radio and Television Industry (CIRT) and the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, where the SITATYR y el STIRT headed by Ricardo Acedo Samaniego, as well as union delegates from all the regions of the country where there are radio and television stations.
Flores Sandoval explained that “the negotiation has been very complicated, there is still no clarity on the agreement that can be established, but the important thing and the objective will always be to preserve the sources of employment.”
He recalled that the difficulty faced by companies stems, among other reasons, from the fact that they have to pay the State for granting the concession in advance, to which is added the fact that they have to grant times -which are not commercialized – and that they are also facing changes with an impact on advertising, all of which makes revisions complicated, which in this case is of the entire content of the Law Contract”.
In Mexico there are only 7 legal contracts, with the Sugar Industry being the most represented with 35,595 workers and the second place being held by Radio and Television with 31,152 workers.
Law contracts were frozen
Unlike collective bargaining agreements, legal contracts do not have any changes or modifications, as happened with the 2019 reform, where even the United States and Canadian governments introduced an entire labor chapter to supervise compliance.
In this regard, Manuel Fuentes, a labor lawyer, commented that “since 1994, law contracts have been in a frozen stage in order to make it an adequate way to review contractual conditions in a generalized manner, but it has not been possible to achieve it, because This form of hiring does not exist in Canada or the United States, so it has never been reviewed; it has been getting old how to carry out the revision of these contracts”.
There are companies of many sizes that are part of an industrial branch, but ultimately no solution has been found on how to solve a problem that truly helps all companies, hence there has been no growth in contract law.
Therefore, he said, “a reform and modernization is required, today only the union leaders decide, and it has to be inserted in the new labor model; there are even law contracts that have been decreasing, as is the case of Textile”.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx