While new hikes coming every day as a result of out-of-control inflation caused a decrease in the purchasing power of citizens, the General Secretary of the Confederation of Independent Public Employees' Unions (BASK) Mehmet Alper Öğretici called for a raise to the government. While pointing out that the raises given to civil servants with the 6th Term Collective Agreement are insufficient against inflation, the Öğretici said, "An additional raise should be made to the civil servants at the real inflation rate and the inflation difference should be given every month."
The purchasing power of citizens is decreasing day by day in the face of daily price hikes. Another effect of the hikes is on the inflation figures, while inflation continues to go upper as a result of the hikes. Due to these increases, the increase in the 6th Term Collective Agreement signed in August melted in the face of inflation, while the General Secretary of the Confederation of Independent Public Servants Unions (BASK), Mehmet Alper Öğretici, called for a raise in civil servant salaries. As a result of the 6th Term Collective Agreement signed in August, a 5 percent + 7 percent salary increase was envisaged for public employees for 2022. While the public employees experienced a serious decline in their salaries at the beginning of 2022 with the inflation data being higher than expected, BASK Secretary General Mehmet Alper Öğretici pointed out that the civil servants became creditors at a rate of 8,95 percent due to the inflation difference and added, “The 7,5-percent hike offer in total for the first 6 months of 2022 melted away in the face of inflation.”
GIVEN INFLATION DIFFERENCES ONLY MEET THE DELAYED LOSS
Stating that after the first 3 months of 2022, the inflation difference of the next 3 months, which is valid for the contract, will be covered from the pockets of public servants, Öğretici said, “We are inevitably faced with an additional hike to cover the financial losses of public employees. Inflation differences taken in six-month periods are not a raise but a delayed compensation for the loss. However, these losses are not covered retrospectively.”
IF THE REGULATION IS NOT MADE, THE CIVIL SERVANT WILL BE CRUSHED UNDER THE INFLATION AGAIN IN JULY
Stating that the government should make additional hike and inflation difference payments against the losses of public servants, Öğretici added, “If no additional hike is made and 7 percent increase is given with the inflation difference in July, the 7 percent increase will still remain under inflation in the first months. In order to prevent this, public servants should be raised over real inflation and inflation differences should be paid monthly, not once every 6 months.”