The working-class history of Romania
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- Bitter Victory for Romanian Miners
- By Damien Roustel, Le Monde diplomatique,
February 1999. A secret agreement on a pay rise and the
re-opening of pits closed just before Christmas 1998. In
return the miners agreed to go back to their homes in the
Jiu Valley. The compromise avoided a bloody showdown, but is
a fresh blow to neo-liberal reforms.
- Miners win in the streets
- By Andy McInerney, Workers World, 4 February
1999. By the time of the settlement, the miners were within
100 miles of the capital. They had already fought two
pitched battles with riot cops, smashing through police
barricades that the government had set up to stop them. They
were demanding a 35-percent wage increase and a halt to
closing two pits in Petrosani.
- Romania labour unions mull strikes, slam
austerity
- By Roxana Dascalu, Reuters, 8 April 1999. Leaders of
Romania's biggest trade unions, accusing the government
of failing to turn reform promises into action and ease
austerity, vowed on Thursday to go ahead with threatened
nationwide strikes later this month.
- Contractual Bonding of Houses of Foreign
Workers in Their Countries of Origin
- A-Infos News Service, [19 December 1999]. A number of
workers informed us that their families
abroad—primarily in Romania—received a court
order of eviction unless they paid sums totaling thousands
of dollars, all because a family member in Israel
“escaped” from his place of work.
- Striking Romanian teachers march on
government
- Reuters, 10 February 2000. Thousands of Romanian teachers
marched on government headquarters in Bucharest on Thursday,
the fourth day of their second nationwide pay strike this
year. They are urging the government to allocate a minimum
of four percent of gross domestic product to the education
sector.
- Workers in Romania defense industry stage pay
protest
- Reuters, 28 February 2000. Thousands of angry Romanian
defense workers, laid off because of falling orders,
protested on Monday against the cabinet's failure to
pass a bill guaranteeing them 75 percent of their
wages.