Video, photo: Trade unionists demonstrated for an hour and a half on Wenceslas Square in Prague
A demonstration by disgruntled representatives of employees and citizens took place on Saturday, October 8, after noon on Wenceslas Square in Prague. It lasted approximately an hour and a half. The protest meeting was called by the Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions (ČMKOS). Take a look with Deník at how it looked in the center of the metropolis.
Trade union demonstration on Wenceslas Square in Prague
| Video: Diary/Radek Cihla
The event is intended to show the government that there is a need to help people and companies. ČMKOS called on the government to immediately introduce price regulation of basic necessities of life – i.e. food, heat and hot water, rent, fuel and other fuels. He also wants a halt to further declines in real wages and salaries in 2023, and to offset the decline in real wages and salaries for 2022 as quickly as possible.
Trade unionists demand immediate price regulation of basic necessities
The head of the trade union headquarters, Josef Středula, and other representatives of individual trade unions spoke at the meeting. According to estimates, hundreds, maybe lower thousands of people gathered in the central part of Wenceslas Square. The participants held trade union flags, some even the Czech national flag. They often expressed their protest by honking and whistling.
The demonstration ended at approximately half past two in the afternoon. According to the first information, the participants from the center of Prague dispersed peacefully.