About 20,000 Unionists Expected To Rally In Bucharest On Jul 9

The route for a protest march has not been decided yet, but is sure to include Victoriei Square, where the Romanian Government’s building is located.

Union federation vice-president Romulus Nita told MEDIAFAX Monday that the Government’s anti-crisis plan isn’t being applied and union members are also displeased that a meeting with the Government set for April never took place.

Regarding President Traian Basescu’s call on ministers to keep expenses within their assigned budgets, Nita said public sector employees will take to the streets unless their wages are paid according to their collective work contracts.

Union president Bogdan Hossu told MEDIAFAX Sunday that people will protest in the streets more often as people’s confidence in politicians is free-falling. He said the economic crisis will be, therefore, doubled by a social crisis, resulting into “utter chaos".

President Basescu called on ministers during a Cabinet meeting Sunday to keep wage expenses within set limits and said he expects a negative budget revision in August or September.

About 500,000 unionists throughout the country, affiliated to Cartel Alfa, were on a fifteen-minute warning strike Friday morning.

The unionists call for urgent measures meant to keep current jobs, apply technical unemployment provisions correctly, revise laws regarding collective layoffs, block the privatization of state-owned companies, draft the public-private partnership law, create decent jobs by applying the measures included in the anti-crisis program established with social partners, step up priority investments backed from the state budget, assign funds for development and innovation, stimulate investments in new technologies, update labor legislation, maintain the purchase power by increasing the minimum guaranteed salary so that the minimum salary will reach 50% of the average salary, as well as create a quarterly indexation mechanism in ratio with inflation.

 

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