Protest of the specialists from the libraries in the Republic of Bulgaria
FROM MAY 20, 2022, the representatives of the trade unions of the REGIONAL LIBRARIES at the NF “Culture” at the LC “Support” organize protests.
On December 18, 2020, Additional Agreement No. RD11-00-286 / 08.11.2021 was signed to the Branch Collective Bargaining Agreement for Libraries, which added conditions for the introduction of minimum initial basic monthly salaries in the branch.
However, the agreement is not being implemented.
We urge the final government and the MPs to change this unacceptable situation in time and definitely.
Today, libraries in Bulgaria are forced to operate in the conditions of accepted but not met standards for library services, with extremely insufficient funding from the Ministry of Culture. These circumstances do not confront the inability to perform their important public functions.
Our main demands before the budget update of 1 July 2022 are:
– To increase by 40% the Single Expenditure Standard for subsidized number of regional libraries. The necessary funds amount to BGN 10,288,863, including – for the remuneration of the staff under Art. 1, para. 5, item 10.2 of the Law on the State Budget of the Republic of Bulgaria for 2022
– To increase the subsidized numbers in the regional libraries – from 1,177 to 1,200.
The most important investment of a library is investing in human resource development. Therefore, after discussing the problems of libraries, contact the insufficient funding of participants in the National Meeting of Trade Union Representatives of Libraries, held on 12-13 May 2022, decided to librarians across the country to launch protests in on the eve of the most Bulgarian holiday – May 24.
We invite all our readers and like-minded people to join our demands.
The employees of the Sofia Library will protest in front of the library building on May 20, 2022 from 2 to 3 p.m.
NF “Culture”
CL “Support”