The postmen are threatening a general strike if their salaries are not increased. The National Trade Union Bloc (BNS) draws attention to the fact that, during the collective bargaining process, the Romanian Post management did not reach a consensus with the Romanian Postal Workers' Union (SLPR).
Strike – Romanian Post – PHOTO Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
Trade unionists from “Romanian post” are preparing for the start of the general strike at the end of March, at the latest at the beginning of April. The National Trade Union Bloc announced the launch of the campaign “,Postmen don't want to be the poor of Romania anymore! Stop the abuses of the Romanian Post!“. He wants, in this way, to increase the salaries of postmen.
Postmen's salaries will increase by 250 lei this year, starting in June, the Romanian Post previously announced.
However, during the collective bargaining process, the Romanian Post management did not reach a consensus with the Romanian Postal Workers' Union (SLPR), reports the BNS.
,,The Romanian Post management and general director Valentin Ștefan were never interested in collective bargaining! Valentin Ștefan did not want the conclusion of a collective labor contract with the role of establishing social peace within the company. Valentin Ștefan did not participate in any of the collective bargaining meetings, sending people there without a mandate. Collective bargaining at unit level is an obligation from which neither the employer nor the workers in all their forms of organization can escape! If a general strike is reached within the Romanian Post company, almost half of Romania's population will suffer! This taking into account the object of activity of the Romanian Post, that of distributing pensions to over 5 million pensioners, to distribute all the social aids and other benefits that the Ministry of Labor grants to people in subsistence situations in Romania and, not in last line, taking into account that the Romanian Post distributes all summonses and summonses of procedural order of the courts, the problem of dysfunction will be a major one!”says Mircea Burlacu, vice-president of the National Bank of Romania.
The postmen want salaries to increase by 400 lei net for all employees of the Romanian Post and to increase loyalty bonuses by a percentage between 5 and 10.
