UGT denounces that salaries should be duplicated in sectors such as hospitality and commerce to pay a home
The relentless rise in the price of housing has made finding a rent within the recommended effort levels or accessing a mortgage is increasingly complicated, especially in large cities. UGT has denounced on Monday this situation that workers are going through. They estimate that in the last ten years the housing in sale has increased by means 77%, an increase that has not been accompanied by a couple of salaries. The gap between housing and salary price is so large that the union warns that, In order for the payment of the mortgage or the rent not to exceed 40% of the income, the salaries would have to double in sectors such as hospitality or trade in areas such as Madrid or Barcelona.
According to the report Collective agreements and right to housing: the price of a basic good is eaten salaries Presented on Monday by UGT, a worker needs on average in Spain more than 52 years of net salary to buy a home, dedicating 40% of their income to the payment to the mortgage. In places like Madrid, Catalonia or Balearic Islands, the price of a 60 -square -meter floor exceeds 300,000 eurosequivalent to between 20 and 25 years of full salary. The situation is not better in the rental market: of the 195 cases analyzed by the union, only in 15% it is fulfilled that the average price of housing does not exceed 40% of the minimum agreed by agreement.
The overexertion situation is widespread, although in some sectors and areas it is especially evident. In the hospitality agreements analyzed, for example, the greatest weight of an average mortgage quota on the net salary of an average remuneration category is recorded in Madrid – ‘93% of the salary is eaten – even exceeding the average mortgage the entire net salary of the lowest categories. Also In the commerce sector, Madrid is where more weight is calculated that it has the average share of the net salary of the intermediate categories, assuming 120%. It is followed by the Barcelona Convention, with a 97%overestrial level.
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According to UGT calculations, this means that in several agreements some salaries should even double so that the mortgage quotas will be below 40%. In the case of the agreement of the Madrid hospitality, for example, salaries should increase between 112% and 157% Depending on the category and in the trade, between 79.3% and 141%. Similarly, in Barcelona, the rise in the trade agreement should range between 81% and 104%.
In the case of rent, the difficulties increase. The average monthly rent is supposed to around a complete net salary in Madrid and Barcelona for hospitality, trade or agricultural sector, as well as in the Balearic Islands and Malaga in the lowest salary categories of the Cleaning Sector agreements. “For working people to stop allocating a disproportionate percentage of their income to the payment of the rent, in some territories the net salary should, at least, double,” says the report, which suggests that they give cases in which salaries should even grow more than 200%as is the case of the lowest salary category of the cleaning agreement in Madrid.
“In each and every case, in all the purchase and rental prices we have reported, except in some small city such as Cáceres, in the rest of the sites, It is not possible or access to a house in rent or access a house in property “has summarized at a press conference the Deputy Secretary General of Union Policy of UGT, Fernando Luján. Given this situation, the union recalls that housing is a “basic right”, so he defends that the price increase must be taken into account when raising wages.
Negotiate salary increases
In that sense, UGT has advanced that they will demand The inclusion of housing price as a structural indicator when negotiating salary increases Looking ahead to the next agreement for employment and collective bargaining (AENC), which is the framework of recommendations that employer and unions agree to negotiate the collective agreements in which they participate. They also see that the data of the Observatory of Business Margins be taken into account, as a reflection of what is the real evolution of business benefits.
At the moment, UGT points out that the difficulties in accessing a home are delaying the age of emancipation of young people – it is almost four years above the European average – and are already impacting vacancies. “If access to housing In Baleares it is above 1,100 euros in any regime, what salary should be paid to a working person to want to work there?
However, UGT warns that the housing problem is not resolved by addressing it solely from collective bargaining. Out of their scope, they call, for example, the application of the Housing Law and the declaration of tensioning areas. “Workers cannot access a home. We cannot solve this with collective bargaining, this is a major problemof dignity, of human rights. If we do not stop it, it can cause a social outbreak, “Luján warned.
