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The employees of Teva in Debrecen demonstrated, the company responded with a video
The employees of the Teva pharmaceutical factory held a demonstration on Tuesday afternoon. They complained that the company had not yet responded to the rising cost of living. In a statement sent to our editorial office by the company, after they have a valid wage agreement with their employees, as part of this, their employees’ salaries have already been raised in two steps this year.
European wages. We have already made a sacrifice. What is the point? Why is our work worth less? These inscriptions were also legible on the boards of Teva employees.
Many people gathered at the pharmaceutical factory in Debrecen to call on the management and owners to
with the current drastically increased cost of living, the wage agreement concluded at the beginning of the year is no longer enough.
– Other large-scale industrial companies also put medicine in order to help the workers, and we compare the Teva pharmaceutical company to this; we would like them to be taken as an example and Teva to offer similar compensation to the workers. Either a monthly subsidy, a lump-sum subsidy, or a wage increase that covers all employees – Erzsébet Szabóné Lakatos, secretary of the Chemical Workers’ BIOGAL Trade Union, told Debrecen Television.
Teva responded to our inquiry in a statement. In it, among other things, they said that it is important to ensure the well-being of employees and competitive employment conditions. They are aware of the economic challenges affecting their employees, because as a company present in more than 60 countries around the world, they experience similar difficulties everywhere. It was further emphasized that
the company has a wage agreement valid for this year,
and they implemented their obligations in two steps. The second wage increase this year was in July.