Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.
Romanian Subway Workers on Strike
Bucharest | 29 October 2009 | Marian Chiriac
Bucharest subway scene, flickr.com, p@ul
Workers want a 26 per cent wage rise and are angry that the subway company's management are refusing to renegotiate their collective labour contract, which expires on November 1, because the company's budget for next year has yet to be approved.
Currently, subway employees earn an average of 350 euros a month, plus bonuses, while working in harsh conditions and doing nightshifts.
Transport Minister Radu Berceanu said Thursday that Metrorex employees' demands are “exaggerated” and that negotiations over salaries will be held early next year.
Romania is trying hard to reduce public spending, in an effort to speed IMF-prescribed reforms, linked to the receipt of a 20 billion euros aid package.
