2024-03-27 18:37:26
We invited a negotiation team of the two trade unions “Support” and the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (KNSB) after today’s protest, because the care of Sofia’s children is important to us not only in words. All childcare workers should know one thing: we get you. This was written by the mayor of Sofia, Vasil Terziev, in a post on his Facebook page informing about the meeting.
Earlier today, there was a protest by the Federation of Trade Unions in Health Care at KNSB and the Medical Federation “Podkrepa” in front of the building of the Metropolitan Municipality at 33 “Moskovska” Street. People protested with demands for an increase in their salaries from 1,350 BGN to 1,890 BGN.
In the post on the social network, the mayor of the capital states that a fair level of pay is very important. We are working on solving this problem as well. One of many we face every day, he states. We have sensitivity and are engaged to solve it, assures Terziev. “As the representatives of the unions themselves told us yesterday – the pay problem has tended to be neglected for nearly 10 years. In order to find solutions to any of the inherited problems in the city, this must happen in a constructive and civilized conversation,” he wrote. the metropolitan mayor.
The financing of the remuneration of specialists in the child health care sector occurs through the state budget, not through the municipal budget. Any talk that the municipality should finance targeted, and not through the state budget, is cheap and irresponsible populism. Therefore, we will work out a general framework for requests to the state, informed Vasil Terziev.
He informed that the work continues next week together with the unions to jointly draw up measures to work on. Together we will create a concrete plan of action that will stimulate the attraction of more young staff and fair working conditions, Terziev wrote and thanked for the proposals and for the constructive conversation held with the unions after the protest.