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Workers at airlines and airports throughout Europe continue a months-long wave of strikes, seeking to win back pay “sacrifices” made by the trade unions at the start of the pandemic. As well as reduced pay and high inflation, workers face intolerable working conditions as large numbers of passengers return to understaffed airports.
Pilots at the majority state-owned Romanian airline TAROM began a partial strike on Tuesday, stopping work for three hours. The TAROM Union (SUT) announced it would organise partial stoppages two days each week, and planned a full-day walkout at an unspecified future date.
Romania’s transport minister denounced the strike, calling for workers to help “save” the company by supporting a restructuring plan agreed with the European Commission, saying absurdly, “There is a need for solidarity of those in the company who have high incomes with those who are still paid the minimum wage,” See News reported.
The SUT said TAROM’s pay offer was a mere six percent for pilots, and 350 lei monthly for workers on the minimum wage. Exposing the government claims of “solidarity” with minimum wage workers, their pay rise amounts to 11 percent, an effective pay cut with inflation currently at 15 percent.
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