The Government has summoned public sector unions this Wednesday to present its offer of new jobs (new entry and internal promotion) in the General State Administration for 2026. However, it is not expected to be a friendly meeting, as the unions are almost certainly willing to reject the proposal, as they did last year. In 2025, the union organizations considered the offer of 36,600 positions insufficient.
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They come to the meeting with a common criticism upfront: the Government has not provided them with figures to negotiate and they foresee that the plan will be very insufficient to cover the needs of public services. UGT has already announced that it “will not endorse” this public employment offer, while CC OO and CSIF attend this Wednesday’s meeting with strong misgivings about supporting the Executive’s proposal, according to union sources consulted.
Thus, the three main union confederations of the General Negotiation Table of the General State Administration reproach the Government’s personnel managers for not having had a real negotiation in the preparatory meetings held in recent weeks. “The Ministry has only conveyed to the union organizations the general lines of the public employment offer (known in the sector as OPE) for 2026, without providing figures,” denounces the UGT public services federation in a statement. Faced with this, the union assures that it “has demanded (unsuccessfully) to know an approximate quantification of the positions to be offered as well as the bodies and scales to which they will be directed, since the lack of data prevents real negotiation.”
In fact, the workers’ representatives criticize the Secretary of State for Public Function for presenting the specifics of its figures and closing the negotiation at the same meeting this Wednesday. The unions doubt that the Executive, which has already previously announced that the offer will be similar to last year’s, will create net employment with its proposal, as they have not provided figures for the vacancies that will occur due to the numerous planned retirements. At CC OO, they are awaiting the final figure, but as with UGT, they warn of a possible rejection: “If the Government does not provide the necessary data to know if net employment will be created, the unions will reject the offer again, as last year,” they indicate.
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Furthermore, at CC OO, they warn that they would only accept the offer if it significantly improved on last year’s to address the extraordinary regularization process for immigrants that has just started this week. Identical discomfort exists in the CSIF civil servants’ union, where they express caution, but also demand to verify, with figures, that net employment will indeed be created and that it will be sufficient to reinforce the staff of SEPE, Social Security, the General Directorate of Traffic, or Penitentiary Institutions.
In addition, union leaders strongly criticize the fact that more than 9,000 positions for labor personnel included in the 2023, 2024, and 2025 offers (5,765 new entry and 3,328 internal promotion) have not yet been announced. It is also the case that these positions expire three years after being announced, so they could start to be lost. Union sources have indicated that public function negotiators have committed to announcing the accumulated offer for 2023 and 2024 within two months, but they also express doubts about this commitment.
