The Ministry of Public Function will meet this Wednesday at 18.00 hours with CCOO, UGT and CSIF to try to close a wage agreement that includes a rise of 11% for civil servants between 2025 and 2028. It is a pact that the Government wants to leave ready this week and that, for now, only UGT supports, according to union sources. The meeting takes place after Monday’s negotiation, which lasted more than five hours, concluded without consensus, as La Voz de Ibiza advanced.
The main blockage: the 4 % limit in 2025 and 2026
CCOO argues that the 4% cap planned for 2025 -with retroactive effect from January- and for 2026 is “insufficient” and that this is the central obstacle to an agreement. In its communiqué, the union has warned that there is “margin to reach a meeting point”, although it keeps on the table the possibility of mobilizations if the Government maintains its approach.
For its part, CSIF shares the concern about the first two years of the wage cycle and warns that, if the Executive does not modify the 4% ceiling, “we will have to return to the streets”. The union will consult the content negotiated with its internal bodies, but argues that the text presented by the Civil Service is “improvable in many aspects”.
Government commitment: 2.5 % in the December payroll
The Ministry’s proposal includes a total increase of 11%, one point more than its initial offer, in addition to a Royal Decree-Law that would allow a 2.5% increase corresponding to 2025 to be paid in December, effective January 1.
The Civil Service proposes that the increase be entirely fixed, without the variable tranches of the previous agreement, which could raise the real increase to 11.45% due to the sliding of the tables, according to negotiating sources.
Attempts to rebalance between 2026 and 2027
During Monday’s meeting, UGT proposed moving half a point of the increase from 2027 to 2026 to reinforce next year’s increase, going from 5% to 4.5% in 2027 and raising the previous year. The Government rejected this possibility on the understanding that it would compromise the agreed four-year framework. UGT is, for now, the only organization that endorses the text, although it admits that “there are still some details to be closed”.
Impact on public employees in Balearic Islands and Ibiza
The salary revision would affect all administrations -State, communities and municipalities-, including public employees in Ibiza and Formentera, who also maintain their own claims such as the update of the insularity bonus, a claim endorsed at Monday’s meeting.
CSIF stresses that the Ministry has accepted historical measures, such as eliminating the replacement rate, improving internal promotion, updating the amounts for insularity and reason for service after two decades frozen and strengthening Muface healthcare.
Inflation, the argument of the Executive
The Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Function, Óscar López, has defended that “the increase has been proposed taking into account the evolution of inflation”, with the aim of avoiding loss of purchasing power. According to López, “the Government has always practiced social dialogue”, although the negotiation is progressing with marked differences.
The last salary pact, in force between 2022 and 2024, allowed salaries to be raised by around 10%, combining fixed and variable tranches, at a cost of around 13 billion.
