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Over 10,000 Ambulance Workers Join Romanian Public Sector Strike Monday

Over 10,000 workers of Romania’s ambulance services will go on full-blown strike indefinitely as of Monday, along with teachers and public administration workers in protest to the Government’s austere spending cut plan which lowers wages and pensions.
Over 10,000 Ambulance Workers Join Romanian Public Sector Strike Monday
28 mai 2010, 09:33, English

However, medical emergencies will be covered countrywide, as not all ambulance workers will be on strike.

About half a million state employees in schools and public institutions go on strike indefinitely as of Monday and other state employees in healthcare, transports, the penitentiary system, and even some in the private sector, will strike out of solidarity.

Romania’s Government will seek a confidence vote in Parliament to adopt two laws lowering public sector wages and cutting pensions, in a move to bring the budget deficit to 6.8% of GDP under the terms of a EUR20 billion IMF-led rescue loan agreed last year.