CSIF calls for a rally in front of the Ministry of Defense to demand a pay raise for civilian personnel.

The Independent Trade Union of Civil Servants (CSIF) is calling for a rally, along with CC.OO., UGT, and CIG, to negotiate a pay raise for civilian Defense personnel , similar to the one agreed upon for military personnel assigned to the department headed by Margarita Robles, according to the union.

The call will take place today , Thursday, at 12:00 p.m. at the Ministry of Defense . The reason is to demand that civilian personnel dependent on this same department receive the linear increase of 200 euros per month in their salaries, as agreed for military personnel of the Armed Forces by royal decree at the end of March of this year.

More than 15,000 workers from all over Spain make up the civilian staff of the Ministry of Defense, all of them excluded from this salary increase intended for military personnel, CSIF laments.

The royal decree approving the salary increase authorized an investment of €400 million in defense spending for this purpose. CSIF, for its part, estimated that the cost of extrapolating this increase to civilian defense workers would increase funding by €36 million.

The salaries modified by Royal Decree represent a 200-euro increase for members of our country's Armed Forces, with an additional 100 euros for enlisted personnel and sailors. This increase affects only the general component of the specific supplement , and its economic effects are retroactive to January 1, 2025.

It's worth noting that military salaries in Spain are divided into base pay, three-year periods, extraordinary payments, and supplements (destination supplement, specific supplement, employment supplement, special dedication supplement, or extraordinary service bonus).

The update of the provisions of the Armed Forces personnel responds to the "need to have human capital with the appropriate preparation and motivation" and to "adapt them to the ever-increasing demand for technical training and permanent availability for service" , in accordance with the change in the international context , characterized by uncertainty, as well as with the transition from a "conventional military scenario" to a "complex" one, is set out in Royal Decree 248/2025, of March 25, which modifies the Regulations on remuneration of the personnel of the Armed Forces, approved by Royal Decree 1314/2005, of November 4.

Similarly, the royal decree asserts that "one of the salary supplements that best identifies the performance of the activity, the technical difficulty, the responsibility, as well as the characteristic conditions and special circumstances of the position held by public employees" is the specific supplement , consisting of the general component -associated with the greatest responsibility acquired depending on the job, following an ascending order in each of the scales- and the singular component -depending on the position- for military personnel.

The union indicates that its organization "understands that military personnel obviously deserve such an increase, but believes this measure should be extended to civilian personnel as well, as their work remains essential to the proper functioning of the administration under the Ministry of Defense." They argue that civilian personnel show the "same commitment to national defense," and therefore hope the Ministry will extend the stipend.

Until this happens, CSIF warns that the unions have agreed to suspend their relations with the department headed by Margarita Robles. In this regard, CC.OO. denounced that, despite the unions' insistence and "after several months of waiting," the Ministry of Defense has not presented any proposal in this regard.