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Hundreds Of Police Protest Outside Romanian Govt Over Austerity Measures

A few hundred police workers are protesting outside the Government building in Bucharest, demanding a halt in layoff plans and their full wages back.
Hundreds Of Police Protest Outside Romanian Govt Over Austerity Measures
Oana Gavrila
24 sept. 2010, 11:07, English

Protesting police are joined by unionists in the economic sector and the penitentiary system.

Protesters called for the head of state to come talk to them, otherwise threatening to go picket the presidential palace.

This is the third day of protests against the Government’s austerity measures. The Government has slashed public sector wages by 25% in July and plans to fire thousands of public sector workers by the end of the year.

Unionists met Thursday with the labor minister but said talks, although friendly, yielded no concrete results.

This week’s demonstrations are taking place in the absence of Prime Minister Emil Boc, who is in New York City, attending the high-level plenary reunion of the United Nations General Assembly. Boc said he has authorized Labor Minister Ioan Botis to continue talks with union leaders, but argued for „level-headedness,” insisting that the Government’s austerity program is necessary.