Strike of the labor personnel in Argentina in June of 2017.
The Diplomat. 25/07/2018
A report from the CCOO union with the ranking of the eight worst jobs for Spaniards currently, places fifth the employment at Embassies and Consulates of Spain abroad.
In 2017, one out of every four employees in Spain had a temporary contract, a situation that is worse for those under 29, whose temporality reaches 57%. In addition, the average income of those under 35 has decreased by 25% between 2008 and 2014. These figures also show that the highest percentage of temporary work falls on them, with 80%.
The situation is particularly delicate in certain labor sectors of the national scene, such as security guards, home help aides, food delivery service providers or domestic workers. In fifth place is the labor staff of Embassies, Consulates, ministerial offices, the Cervantes Institute or the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (Aecid) among other institutions, as it is a sector that has been hit hard by the wage freezes since 2009.
Since then there have been several cuts and a constant postponement of their rights and claims affecting 7,000 of the 10,000 employees that the General State Administration has abroad (the remaining 3,000 are civil servants). These are drivers, service personnel, security guards, gardeners or administrators, according to the aforementioned CCOO report.
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The work in Embassies and Consulates has suffered a constant loss of purchasing power in the last decade
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These workers face a constant loss of purchasing power derived from being located in countries where inflation has multiplied over the years, such as Argentina or Uruguay. That is, while the price of life rises uncontrollably, their salaries continue at the same level as in the last decade, even below the Interprofessional Minimum Wage of the country where they are located, as is the case with the staff settled in Sydney ( Australia).
This reality has led to many of these employees having to moonlight to reach the end of the month. From the sector they denounce that the agreement between government, unions and employers has not been respected to review periodic salary increases to avoid this loss of purchasing power and that the salary increase collected in the General Budgets of 2018 has not been applied.
