12 minutes agoUnionists demand more than 4 per cent increase in wages
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)January could find many public sector institutions in strikes. Government's recent warnings that the public sector's public sector wage growth in 2018 will be only 4 percent have irritated independent unions in Kosovo today, writes Koha Ditore. Such growth is considered unacceptable, [...]
Such growth is considered unacceptable, not excluding street protests.
The Union of Independent Unions of Kosovo (BSPK) under which these unions operate is soon expected to take a joint position in co-ordination with all union federations to counter this public sector wage growth.
Finance Minister Bedri Hamza has recently warned that by January of next year, public sector salaries will increase 4 per cent. But this warning is calling it reckless, the chairman of the Union of Independent Trade Unions of Kosovo, Avni Aydin, under which, the wage increase should not be done in percentages, but in linear terms.
