Overview
- The provincial government and state worker unions reopened collective wage negotiations Thursday and the meeting ended without a formal salary proposal from the executive.
- Officials said large debt service outflows and a drop in revenue have tightened the treasury, which constrains how much the province can offer now.
- Unions including ATE, UPCN and Fegeppba pressed for short, bimonthly deals covering October and November with monitoring clauses and a larger October increase to offset September’s gap.
- Any agreement reached in the reopened talks would not change September pay because those salaries are already closed; raises would affect payrolls from October onward.
- The province signaled it will prepare a written proposal in the coming days while sectoral demands such as permanent hires, scholarship regularization and specific health and tax agency claims are likely to be postponed.