The employees of Constanta museums and libraries will be on Japanese strike tomorrow

The people who take care of Romania’s cultural heritage, the employees in museums and libraries, will be on Japanese strike tomorrow. In Constanța, the representatives of the Constanța National History and Archeology Museum, the Art Museum, the Folk Art Museum, the “Ion Jalea” Sculpture Museum, but also those of the “Ioan N. Roman” County Library request higher salaries, which will reward them the effort and to ensure them a decent living.

Here are their grievances, according to a press release from the “Ovidius” Union of Constanța Museum Workers, signed by Oana Grigoruță, president of the Executive Office:

In the context of not honoring the promises made by the Government of Romania during the negotiations with the representatives of the National Federation of Trade Unions in Culture and Press “CulturMedia” and the president of CNS Cartel Alfa, Mr. Bogdan Iuliu Hossu, regarding the elimination of wage inequities arising as a result of GEO 128/2023, the employees of museums and public libraries are once again humiliated and their work disrespected. In response to this attitude, the unions keep their word to the members and initiate protest actions throughout the country, according to the program announced in the second half of March.

The “Ovidius” Trade Union of Constanța Museum Workers, affiliated to the “CulturMedia” Federation and the Territorial Trade Union Union Constanța Branch of CNS “Cartel Alfa”, joins its colleagues, declaring a Japanese strike on April 4, 2024. Union members will wear, during the program of work, a white banderole, on which they will write their existing dissatisfactions at the level of the professional branches, affected by the mockery of the governors. The trade unionists from the Constanța National History and Archeology Museum, the Constanța Folk Art Museum, the Constanţa Art Museum and the “Ioan N. Roman” Constanța County Library will thus make their pressing grievances known.

“DO NOT BURY CULTURE! We exist, we work, we fight for the past, the present and, above all, for the future of all”, the statement concludes.

Source: “Ovidius” Trade Union of Constanța Museum Workers/ Editor: Adina Sîrbu