The "Podkrepa" Confederation of Labor categorically does not accept the 5% increase in salaries in the administration, outside the army, the Ministry of Interior and education, as provided for in the draft state budget. The president of the union, Dimitar Manolov, commented in Veliko Tarnovo that at a meeting next week with the parliamentary groups from the "Podkrepa" Confederation of Labor will insist that the increase in salaries for 90 thousand employees in the administration be at least 3 times more.
The proposal for a 5% increase in budget salaries sends a signal "tighten your belts", commented the president of the "Podkrepa" Confederation of Labor Dimitar Manolov.
"A signal "tighten your belts" cannot be acceptable to us, especially since we have not made up for what we experienced some time ago", said Dimitar Manolov.
The union insists on a 15% increase, and for some sectors of the state administration to change the mechanism for determining salaries.
"Where an agreement is reached between the union organizations and the administration management, there should be this opportunity to increase salaries with fixed amounts, and not necessarily only with a percentage ratio", said Dimitar Manolov.
At the upcoming meetings next week between the "Podkrepa" and the parliamentary groups from the union will insist that the money for the second year of maternity leave not remain "frozen", but be the minimum monthly wage, and that unemployment payments be increased by 50%, which the draft budget now envisages remaining at 18 leva per day.
Manolov is in Veliko Tarnovo to train union members from Northern Bulgaria on arbitration disputes.