Azem: Government behaves as if inflation struck only public sector workers

Chairman Azem at a media conference regarding the state of private sector technical workers also asked to help workers and the private sector, as according to him, Kosovo's budget belongs to citizens, not only the public sector.

“We have also been hit with the package for confronting inflation, so the Government of Kosovo, well knowing that public sector workers have better salaries and conditions than the private sector and the country's executive has allocated salaries for them and did not share for private sector workers. Because private sector workers have three times less salaries than those in the public sector. The private sector finances Kosovo's budget and the government shared tools for the public sector, and not for the private sector as much as inflation hits only public sector workers, not private sector workers. So the workers are very disappointed with what they've done... So the class that is richer is funded by the government and those that are poorer were not financed. Workers who receive 700-800 euros' salary were financed, and a worker who received 170 euros' salary, he stressed.

The chairman of this union, expressing disappointment with the management of the private sector, said that in the Kosovo Prime Minister's Office, workers who maintain this office are paid only 180 euros. This low pay, he has estimated to be of concern to them.

“Today workers in Kosovo's private sector, respectively, workers at the Office of Prime Minister maintaining offices, are paid a 180-euro monthly salary. This issue is of concern to us, but even more difficult is the burden of these workers who have to work on time every day, and at the end of the months, it is known what these workers can do with a salary of 180 euros. Let this happen in the Office of the Prime Minister and in the office of the finance minister, who are called to have private sector workers and others fix the material issue, suggest that there is no small concern. We only have these low wages from the Government of Kosovo, while private companies have a symbolic movement, but never satisfied. Instead of the Government of Kosovo stimulating those workers who work and perform services to state institutions to promote private companies to raise these salaries, the opposite is happening to us”, he stressed.

Azem also that another blow to the workers was not to change the law to withdraw a percentage of the means from the Trust. / KP/