Several thousand people protest in Piața Victoriei on Thursday during a government meeting, a rally to which 5,000 people have been invited, organized by the Meridian National Confederation. Trade union activists took to the streets, dissatisfied with the new Pension Law and some measures in the decree on raising taxes. He said that the cancellation of some exceptions will lead to a reduction in pensions and a violation of the rights of employees.

According to the confederation of trade unions, the demonstrators are employees of forestry, the Central Intelligence Agency, the police, reservists and contract workers, civil servants from the Ministry of Defense, miners, civil servants, farmers, non-medical and medical personnel, airport personnel, non-pedagogical personnel. .

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Complaints of trade unionists

The main discontent is related to the draft law on the state pension system, approved by the government on November 9 and quickly passed in the Senate.

• “The rights of workers, established by the Law on employment in jobs with special and special conditions, should not be abolished! (…) Oddly enough, it directly cancels (the project does not) the existing rights provided for by the professional statutes of foresters, foresters and other categories of workers, regarding the conditions of retirement,” the trade unions say.

According to representatives of Meridian, the fast-moving legislative project does not solve the problem of inequality in the pension system, nor the chronic delays in the application of important laws for military reservists or precinct police officers.

• “The non-implementation and non-application of laws that were supposed to improve the living and working conditions of employees and pensioners, high prices and inflation, lack of long-term legislative predictability and controversial decisions of the last period are staggering. confidence of Romanians in the rule of law and all hope for social progress, justice and the restoration of social justice in Romania, a member state of the European Union, has been lost,” the unions say.

“This rally is a signal”

Trade unionists from CNS Meridian, who are protesting in front of the government, are awaiting an invitation to hold talks with Prime Minister Marcel Çolaku and Labor Minister Simona Bucura-Oprescu.

• “We are waiting (meeting, no) from the government, from Mr. Cholak. He promised us that there would be a meeting today (Thursday, no). I also spoke with the Minister of Labor, Simona Bucura-Oprescu. We are positive.
• I asked for a meeting at 1:00 p.m., but today is a government meeting. Surely someone will accept us. We don’t expect any big surprises. The main goal of this rally is to show that people in Romania are dissatisfied with the way legislation is adopted, the erosion of the rule of law, the erosion of debates in the Romanian Parliament, the lack of transparency in the drafting of bills. systemic laws such as the Pensions Act, because no one consulted us on the Salary Act, on collective labor agreements. There are many dissatisfied,” Dumitru Fornea, general secretary of CNS Meridian, told Agerpres.

The protest is allowed for about 5,000 participants from all over the country.

“This rally is a signal. There will also be signals from other organizations. Our message is very clear: above all, respect the law and collective labor agreements and do not play with important concepts, the rule of law, democracy, parliamentary democracy. Here’s the problem. We have reached a turning point,” added Dumitru Fornea.