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750,000 workers on strike in Romania
5 October 2009 | 11:27 | Source: Beta
*BUCHAREST -- Some 750,000 health, education, public administration and
police employees have started a general strike in Romania today.
* They are protesting a new law on salaries, sackings and forced, no-pay
ten-day leaves.
The strike, which has blocked local institutions, county councils and
financial services, is described as the country's largest in the past 20
years.
Leaders of the unions are saying that the strike is a message to the
political class that they can "no longer manipulate those employees who
get paid from the budget", and are blaming the government for pay cuts
in many sectors.
The Romanian cabinet recently "took responsibility in parliament" for
the new law on the salary system, without completing its negotiations
with the unions first.
Unions representing administration workers said they would organize a
rally in Bucharest on Wednesday and a warning strike on October 23, and
also set October 28 as the date to embark on a general strike that would
last indefinitely.
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