Trade unionists in the Republic of Moldova are threatening mass protests if the annual budget award is canceled. The National Confederation of Trade Unions is asking the Government and Parliament to identify financial sources for awarding the annual prize to the more than 150,000 salaries in the budget sector.
IGOR ZUBCU, President of the National Confederation of Trade Unions of Moldova: a claim. the rights put forward today at the press conference. “
The trade unionists are outraged that on December 3, the Government removed from the draft law on the state budget for next year, the provision regarding the granting of the annual prize that the public servants were to receive for 2020.
GHENADIE DONOS, president of the Trade Union Federation of Education and Science: “With price increases of almost 10% and with a salary increase of only 5% and who still do not know if they will be or not. Therefore, I was not very identified with this situation. Our request is that additional budgetary resources be allocated. “
NICOLAE GARAZ, president of the Federation of Cultural Workers’ Unions: “Workers in the culture branch are the lowest paid, even compared to other budget branches such as education or medicine, wages are the lowest. And if they continue in the following way and do not miss this annual award, it is a total discrimination. “
Tomorrow, the Parliament will meet to vote in a second reading on the draft State Budget Law for 2022. In the third and final reading, no further amendments can be tabled.