The employees of museums and libraries in Romania announce that they will go on strike in Japan, because, they claim, they have been facing “discrimination, unsustainability and forgetting” for 20 years.
On Thursday, April 4, the employees of museums and libraries in Romania are launching protest actions against the dramatic situation in which this socio-professional category finds itself.
According to the CulturMedia Trade Union Federation, the activity of employees in museums and public libraries in Romania has become a professional sector ignored, forgotten and minimized by all governments.
“The actions of the government at the end of 2023, which culminated 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 importance strategic and utility of the field”, he conveyed to the CulturMedia Trade Union Federation, in a press release, notes Profit.ro.
The CulturMedia Trade Union Federation requests measures for:
- remedying moral and salary discrimination generated by GEO 128/2023 and equalizing, as a matter of urgency, the pay of similar functions in the system of museums and public libraries;
- allocating a budget of 0.9 of GDP to the cultural sector with a fair distribution to museum institutions and libraries;
- remedying the current anomalies in the staff salary system in cultural institutions – equalization with performance institutions; the annual indexation of the salaries of the staff paid from public funds in cultural institutions, with the inflation rate;
- 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 by European funds, according to the information contained in the press release of press.
If this action is not taken into account, the employees threaten to trigger a general strike, in the second decade of May 2024, in parallel with the protest demonstrations expected for the International Day of Museums and the Night of Museums.
