2023-12-26 11:45:52
Governor Alberto Weretilneck once once more described a complex economic situation in Río Negro, stating that the “little money” there is should be enough to guarantee services and pay salaries and stressed that “Work to avoid returning to the Río Negro of the past that discontinued the payment of salaries for five or six months.”
In radio statements, this Tuesday he noted that “the situation in the Province is very complex” and added that “We are trying to be balanced to provide health services, security and guarantee education and at the same time pay salaries to public employees.”
Weretilneck once once more outlined a complex panorama and said that “with great humility we are trying to be fair and that the little money the Province has is enough to guarantee services and pay salaries. “We do not have medicines or syringes in public hospitals.”while acknowledging that “we are in enormous debt and behind with transfers to the Municipalities.”
The president said that «We have to be very cautious and not return to the Río Negro of the past, that province that paid the bonuses in 12 installments. That’s how it was when it was my turn to take over. “Río Negro had periods of five-month delays in salary payments.”
In this sense, he stressed that “I don’t want to go back“It was not easy to make the decision to pay the half bonus in two installments, but we have to be cautious because the situation is very fragile.”
Weretilnek said that «the State is not only regarding paying salaries, it must guarantee the SPublic avalanche, the construction of public works, that workers can have a job, that our police officers can provide us with security.
«Education is also the obligation of the State, which is not reduced to the payment of teachers’ salaries but to guarantee the maintenance of schools., food for students, school transportation. Added to all this is social support, cultural development and the promotion of tourist centers.
It was a clear message to the state unions that questioned the split payment of the bonus and are waiting for a salary offer from the Executive, which did not materialize last week, and which will be resumed on Friday, within the framework of joint negotiations.
«We are in a critical situation, provincial revenue is falling and we have to find a balance to be fair: “We have to provide services to the taxpayers who pay taxes every month.”
He said that “each point increase in state taxes means 400 million pesos. For example, increasing it by 10% would be 4,000 million pesos: Where will it come from if less and less is collected, with uncontrolled inflation and people consuming less? “Are we going to take it away from Health, Education, public works?” Weretilneck said.
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- The province must allocate millions of extra pesos for each percentage point of salary increase, Weretilneck said.
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