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| STRIKES AND PROTESTS 17/11/2009 |
| (2009-11-17) |
| Last updated: 2009-11-18 15:30 EET |
The leader of the Metrorex Free Trade Unions Confederation, Ion Radoi, a former senator of the Social Democratic Party, in opposition and a permanent member of the same party, vowed they couldn’t find any other solution than the all-out strike.
"I am sorry I cannot come out with a piece of good news after negotiations. We were not presented with any offer; we were advised to wait until February, after the 2010 budget had been passed. Our apologies go to those who have nothing to do with this conflict, I mean the subway passengers; the subway will not run between 4.00 a.m and 4 p.m. for an indefinite period of time”.
Interim Transport Minister, Liberal Democrat Radu Berceanu said the protest was ungrounded, given that the average monthly wage of a Metrorex employee is 3,600 Lei (around 840 Euros, that is twice as much as Romania’s reported average salary.
"I believe they make good money as compared to people from various other walks of life. The suggestion I made was to maintain their present incomes for another month and a half, until the national budget is published in the Official Journal. They lost a lawsuit in a similar situation. If they carry on like that, by all means we can bring them to court, all the more so as that has been done before.”
Berceanu said that in 2005 the court had declared the strike of the Metrorex employees illegal, after two days only. Berceanu went on to say that the law stipulated that transport workers should provide one third of the activity during the all-out strike, while protesters, in 2005 as well as these days decided their protests should include the peak hours, so that they could completely stall their work. Meanwhile, the Surface Transport Company provided some help to Bucharesters, increasing the number of buses and trolleybuses; police are out on the road in large numbers to cut down on the number of traffic jams and to provide the required traffic flow.
In turn, passengers left their homes at least one hour in advance. Those making the most of the Metrorex protests are the cabbies and the coach and shuttle coach owners who these days simple cannot cope with the demands. Yet the subway trade unionists are not the only ones to stage protests. Employees of blood transfusion centers across Romania have also refused to collect blood, discontent with the cut in some of their bonuses. Trade union leader of the National Hematology Institute, Theodora Tiponut has warned that so far protests have been spontaneous, yet they will be staged nation-wide, after November 19th.
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