Romanian Subway Unionists Call Off Strike

The Government approved in Wednesday's meeting the company's budget for 2010, which maintains the salary fund at the last year's level but includes certain bonuses in the base salary, as subway unionists requested.

Metrorex unionists said they called off the full-blown strike they planned for Thursday after they signed with the company's management a new collective labor contract and the Government approved the revenues and expenses budget for this year.

Transport Minister Radu Berceanu said Tuesday Romania's Government would approve Metrorex's budget and some of the employees' wage bonuses will be included in their base salary.

Unionists with state-owned subway company Metrorex were planning to stage a full-blown strike on March 18, after a court ruled their previous two-day strike in November 2009 had been legal.

The Bucharest Court of Appeals issued a final and irrevocable ruling earlier this month stating the subway employees' two-day subway strike in November last year was legal, which meant they were free to resume their protests anytime.

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