Loading ...Trade unions have declared their honeymoon with the new Government over and are now threatening with industrial action, including picketing, rallies, marches, up to an including all-out strikes.
Late last year, all the large trade union federations suspended strikes waiting for the installation of a new Government that would enforce the laws that were promising substantial pay rises.
Late last year, all the large trade union federations suspended strikes waiting for the installation of a new Government that would enforce the laws that were promising substantial pay rises.
It was about a 33-percent surge in teachers' pay, a law on the increase in class II and III pensions and an increase by 45 percent of the average industrial wages in the reference pension computation point. Adding to these laws were many protocols, including a hea lthcare protocol under which pay increases would have to be performed of at least 25 percent.
Before January 1, trade unions had to put up with the first measure of the Government, that is a ban of drawing a wage and a pension simultaneously. It took the actions of various NGOs to challenge the ban at the Constitutional Court and have the ban, which had stirred up all social categories, declared unconstitutional.
In January, the Government announced that wages will be frozen by April 1, after which talks will be held on their indexation by projected inflation, that is 3 percent in April and 2 percent in October, with the pension computation point to be raised to 43.2 percent of the average wage in October. Mother's allowances were also limited to RON 4,000 and a social pension of RON 300 in April and RON 350 in October was also created.
Trade unions were dealt a strong blow with the conception of an emergency ordinance under which wage benefits and pay bonuses in the public sector won through various negotiations or enshrined in the Labour Code were to be curtailed and some offices disbanded by reorganisation.
The trade unions have accepted the idea of negotiations being held over a uniform pay law for the public sector to be implemented on January 1, 2010.
By March 6, nine articles on the emergency ordinance concerning pay bonuses and other benefits, including long hours, merit pay, radiation bonus and bonuses for work in dangerous places had been discussed, but all were eventually rejected by trade unions and some ministerial officials.
By March 6, nine articles on the emergency ordinance concerning pay bonuses and other benefits, including long hours, merit pay, radiation bonus and bonuses for work in dangerous places had been discussed, but all were eventually rejected by trade unions and some ministerial officials.
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