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Last Wednesdays 12 July the UV hosted the signing of the collective labour agreement between the Valencian public universities.
After the modification of Decree 174/2002 of the Council, on the remuneration of university teaching staff and additional staff that took place 2 June, the door opened to increases in salaries for the teaching staff of Valencian public universities.
To this end, the Universitat de València paid the amounts of the salary increases for teaching staff in the June payroll and paid, in the extraordinary payroll, the amounts corresponding to the salary increase from 1 January 2023, as well as adjusting the extraordinary summer payrollwith the salary increases.
Specifically:
- 1,314 associate professors, 52% of whom are civil servants as their main occupation, have received a 35% pay increase.
- 632 professors and associate professors in health sciences saw a 34% pay increase.
- 23% of the salary increase corresponds to non-doctoral assistants, of which there are currently 4 positions at our University.
- 412 professors and assistant doctoral professors saw an increase in their salaries by 13%.
- 385 contracted PhD holders have experienced a 3% increase in their salaries, given that our university was one of the Valencian universities with the highest level of remuneration.
- The same salary increase has been applied to the collaborating teaching staff, of which we currently have 12 people.
After a meeting of the Technical Committee of the General Universities Committee, convened by the Secretary of Universities and Research, two meetings of the Negotiating Committee for the Agreement were held with the attendance of representatives from the five universities and the five trade unions with representation, and an agreement was reached between all the universities and the majority of the trade unions, which enabled the collective agreement to be signed.
This signing took place on the afternoon of Wednesday 12 July at the Office of the Principal of the Universitat de València, the oldest of the Valencian universities, and was attended by the acting Regional Minister for Science, Universities and Digital Society of the Generalitat Valenciana, Josefina Bueno, and the Principal of the Universitat de València, Mª Vicenta Mestre, who spoke to the attendees just moments begore this historic signing took place.
The five universities of the Valencian Public University System (Universitat de València, University of Alacant, Universitat Politècnica de València, Universitat Jaume I of Castellón and Miguel Hernández University of Elche) and the five Valencian trade unions, Comisiones Obreras (Workers’ Commissions, CCOO-PV) Unión General de Trabajadores (General Union of Workers, UGT-PV), Central Sindical Independiente y de Funcionarios (Central Independent and Civil Servants' Trade Union, CSIF) and Sindicato de Empleados Públicos de la Comunidad Valenciana (Union of Public Employees of the Valencian Community, SEP-CV) singned the agreement in the Boardroom of the Office of the Principal.
The Principal of the Universitat de València, Mª Vicente Mestre, pointed out during her speech that “we must congratulated ourselves for coming together like this to negotiate the process that led to a pre-agreement on 24 April 2019, which had been blocked for years due to the lack of authorisation for the increase in pay that it incorporated” and, referring to the modification of Decree 174/2002 that blocked the agreement, she pointed out that “it is finally possible to close out the rest of the collective agreement and update its contents to follow the new regulatory framework.”
The acting Regional Minister, Josefina Bueno, emphasised that one of her commitments on taking over the Regional Ministry of Science, Universities and Digital Society has thus been fulfilled, making the collective agreement effective, the first in history of the Valencian Public University System. This means that the Valencian Community is no longer the only autonomous community that dos not have a collective agreement for its teaching staff.
The Principal of the Universitat de València states, 'there will finally be a collective regulation of the working conditions of the staff of all the Valencian public universities'.
