Town hall workers will start a protest on Monday, believing that the government has not taken into account their salary demands, the leader of the National Union of Municipal and Town Employees of Romania – SCOR, Dan Carlan, announced on Thursday, Agerpres quoted.

More precisely, the workers will hold a two-hour warning strike, every day, and the rest of the program will be in the mode of a “Japanese redundancy strike”, meaning that all appeals will be resolved within the maximum time allowed by law. .

“Today we have given notice to the government that the mutually agreed suspension ends on Monday morning, we are moving back to the strike calendar. Starting from Monday, the entire town halls of communes in Romania will go on a protest. We will start with a week of warning strikes for two hours each day. I can’t tell you the time when the action will happen, for the simple fact that we don’t want it to be a fixed time. Each day will have a different time when the two hours of protest will begin,” Karlan said in a press statement.

“So that the world does not curse us for the fact that there are many of us, smelly and well-paid”

He noted that starting next week, there will be a “Japanese overexertion strike,” meaning workers will address petitions and requests, but within the statutory deadline.

“There are jobs for which the statutory deadline is 30 days, there are jobs for which the deadline is 15 days. After the expiration of the legal term, we will issue all works. We will operate as before, but if pressure is felt in the local community, it will mean that the whole town hall event is now working in full partnership with the people of our villages and if we give any information today at two o’clock or at the latest , the second or third day – a town planning act or construction permit – means that we are with the local community. The difference will be felt as soon as we proceed to the solution of the works within the maximum period provided by law. So that the world does not curse us for the fact that there are many of us, smelly and well-paid. All three of these adjectives are offensive and inappropriate. But we meet them on the street, every day,” he said.

Dan Karlan noted that the protests were launched in the context of the fact that in April the Government will analyze the implementation of the budget for the first quarter and determine whether it will be able to provide the requested wage increases. He also clarified that the employees of commune town halls are the only ones in the budget system who have remained with salaries at the level of 2021.

Municipal employees want to receive the promised increase of 500 lei

According to him, 60,000 municipal workers are “waiting on the mercy of the government” for a promised salary increase of 500 lei gross. He recalled that six weeks ago union leaders went to Victoria Palace to inform the government of the start of a general strike and that during this interval “absolutely nothing happened”.

“Two days later I signed a protocol with the government asking them to have two weeks to calculate the budgetary impact of the wage demands we had and to initiate legislation that addresses the problem with the promise that things will be resolved amicably. . The promise was repeated by the Prime Minister two weeks later to the 350 mayors present at the ACoR General Assembly, allegedly “next week, ready, we will organize and solve the problem”. Four weeks have passed since then, and absolutely nothing has happened. The financial impact was calculated from the first meeting by colleagues from the Ministry of Finance – it is small, it is 315 million lei,” said Dan Karlan.

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