Japanese strike launched by the employees of museums and public libraries in Romania –

Japanese strike launched by employees of museums and public libraries in Romania – Thursday, April 4, 2024

20 years of DISCRIMINATION;

20 years of UNSUSTAINABILITY!

20 years of BAD STATE!

20 years of LEHAMITE and FORGETTING;

THAT’S ENOUGH!

The employees of museums and public libraries in Romania are launching a series of protest actions on Thursday, April 4, against the dramatic situation in which this socio-professional category finds itself.

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.

The government’s actions since 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, strategic importance and usefulness the domain.

Under these conditions, the CULTURMEDIA Trade Union Federation requests emergency measures 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 of the personnel in the cultural institutions – equalization with the 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 who work permanently on weekends and during public holidays;

7. Respect, consultation and involvement of the legal social dialogue partners in the legislative activity that is likely to produce effects in the field;

8. Single, national collective labor contract for museum institutions and libraries

On April 4, the members of the CULTURMEDIA Trade Union Federation, affiliated to the CARTEL ALFA National Trade Union Confederation, will protest against the discriminatory salary policies and against the non-honoring of the promises made in the public space by the Government representatives. 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 armbands. The April 4th 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 2024, in parallel with the protest demonstrations expected for the International Day of Museums and the Night of Museums.

04/03/2024

EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Press release – CULTURMEDIA Trade Union Federation