SBASK: Price raising is adding to discontent, Government to Action · Global Voices

The Statistics Agency has formalised the fact that prices of food products and other basics have been raised. This truth has been known and experienced in their family budget by educational workers and other employees, but it is worse that these truths have experienced those with social assistance or even the unemployed, who in Kosovo are not at all”.

Seeing that the price hike trend will likely continue and will boost prices of other products and services, as the frustrations of the SBASK membership increase, which have given them the strength to increase commitments and from the Government to be asked to confront these concerns by taking concrete” actions.

The SBASK membership, among other things, reminds the government that the recent salary raise has taken place symbolically of 4 per cent in 2018, while the price of elementary articles has marked constant increases, Clankosova reports. tv

“At the time when the price raising of elementary articles has occurred and it is expected to boost prices of other products, the Government, as it cannot by legal acts interrupt this trend, or I have to make pay hikes to preserve the current purchasing opportunity and not clearly violate the family basket of elementary articles, or make concrete commitments in co-operation with unions to remove mistakes stated by the Constitutional wage Law and start implementing it. If not one of these happen, then dissatisfactions will increase and there may be requirements for concrete syndical action, demands that SBASK leaders and bodies respect”, says the SBASK statement.