Banat Museum employees, on Japanese strike | TIMPOLIS

The union within the National Museum of Banat, affiliated to the Culturmedia Trade Union Federation, participates in the Japanese strike initiated by Culturmedia.

The Culturmedia Trade Union Federation, affiliated to the Cartel Alfa National Trade Union Confederation, draws attention to the chronic degradation of the professional environment in which the employees of museums and public libraries in Romania work, a professional sector ignored, forgotten and minimized by all governments. Employees from museums and public libraries in Romania affiliated with Culturmedia, on Thursday, April 4, from 10 a.m., start a series of protest actions against the dramatic situation in which this socio-professional category finds itself. The protest will take place at the workplace, in all museums and public libraries and at all work points within the preventive archaeological sites organized by the museum institutions, by wearing white banners.

“The actions of the government at the end of 2023, culminating in the issuance of GEO 128/2023, had the effect of blatant discrimination against all employees in the public system of museums and libraries in Romania, despite the complexity of staff training, their professional performance, the strategic importance and domain utility“, say the representatives of Culturmedia.

Under these conditions, the trade union federation requests emergency measures from the Government for:

1. The remedy of moral and salary discrimination generated by GEO 128/2023 and the urgent equalization of similar positions in the system of museums and public libraries;
2. Allocation of a budget of 0.9 of GDP to the cultural sector with a fair distribution to museum institutions and libraries;
3. Fixing the current anomalies in the salary system for the staff in cultural institutions – equalization with performance institutions;
4. The annual indexation of the salaries of the staff paid from public funds in cultural institutions, with the inflation rate;
5. Additional payment of staff from cultural units/institutions involved in income-generating activities at the state budget (preventive archaeological research, other own income-generating activities) as well as staff from project teams financed from European funds;
6. Payment of overtime by museum and library staff and financial compensation for staff working permanently on weekends and public holidays;
7. Respect, consultation and involvement of legal social dialogue partnerships in the legislative activity that is likely to produce effects in the field;
8. Single, national collective labor contract for museum institutions and libraries;

Culturmedia conveys that the April 4 protest is the first in the calendar of national protest actions, which will culminate with the triggering of the general strike, in the second decade of May, in parallel with the protest demonstrations expected for the International Day of Museums and the Night of Museums.