Romanian Unionists To Go On Warning Strike On June 12

The strike is part of the unions’ plan of protests established by Cartel Alfa early May this year and it will be followed by rallies and a protest march early July, which will be organized in capital city Bucharest. 

 

The unionists said the government failed to apply the plan of anti-crisis measures established with social partners in February this year and stressed the “few” measures taken so far were defective.

 

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.