The Postal Workers Union (SLP), which started the general strike starting today, accuses the company of putting pressure on the strikers, sending employees from Bucharest to the logistics hub in Cluj to replace those who are protesting.
SLP claims that 18,000 of the more than 21,000 employees of the Romanian Post, i.e. a percentage of 90%, regardless of their position, regardless of their responsibilities and seniority, from July 2024 will have the minimum wage in the economy, this being the reason dissatisfaction.
The trade unionists demand an increase of 400 lei net of the employees’ salaries and an increase in the loyalty bonus. The union expressed its willingness to negotiate during the strike period.
The representatives of the company believe that the escalation of the labor conflict and give assurances that the pensions will be distributed on time, despite the protest: “over 80% of the employees will perform their job duties with professionalism, as before! Approximately 20% of the Company’s employees joined the collective labor dispute in writing.”
The communiqué of the trade unionists:
“18,000 of the more than 21,000 employees of the Romanian Post, i.e. a percentage of 90%, regardless of their position, regardless of their responsibilities and seniority, from July 2024 they will have the minimum wage in the economy!
115 days have passed since the management of the Romanian National Post Company made the first decision regarding the 2024 Collective Labor Agreement.
From then until now, 110 days have passed in vain, without the company’s management having any intention of responsibly discussing this document that regulates labor relations between the employer and employees and maintains social peace in a company. Only in the last 4-5 days, after the registration of a labor conflict, after a warning strike and the notification of the general strike, at the express request of the majority shareholder – the Romanian state through the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization, the company’s management began to make available to the union representative – the Romanian Postal Workers’ Union, data and information on the basis of which calculations can be made regarding the salaries of over 20 thousand Romanian Post workers.
It is well known that many of the employees of the Romanian Post have salaries at the minimum level in the economy.
The salary claims of the employees represented in the negotiation by the Romanian Postal Workers Union – the legally representative union at the Romanian Post level, are:
– the increase of 400 lei net of employees’ salaries;
– increasing the loyalty bonus granted in installments to employees who have worked for the Romanian Post for more than a certain number of years.
The management of the Company responded to these demands by establishing a house union, led by the former general manager of the company and former advisor to the current general manager, together with which he signed an agreement by which the postmen were promised salary increases which in fact the law requires them in July 2024.
The postmen refused to be manipulated and are determined to strike. We ask the beneficiaries of the services provided by the Romanian Post, mainly pensioners and social categories as poor as the postmen, to be with us and to ask together with us from the management of the company and from the competent authorities, the fastest possible resolution of the our requests.
The Romanian Postal Workers’ Union expresses its willingness to negotiate during the strike period, in the presence of the minister of digitization – Bogdan Ivan, in his capacity as a representative of the Romanian state, the majority shareholder of Romanian Post, to find solutions to the claims formulated”, the press release states.
