{"id":5760,"date":"2025-07-07T07:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T07:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=5760"},"modified":"2025-07-07T07:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T07:01:51","slug":"health-and-education-unions-to-protest-romanian-governments-fiscal-package-outside-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=5760","title":{"rendered":"Health and education unions to protest Romanian government\u2019s fiscal package outside Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unionists from the Sanitas Federation and several education sector federations will protest on July 7 in front of the Romanian Parliament against the fiscal measures proposed by the government, which they describe as austerity policies affecting public sector workers, <a href=\"https:\/\/agerpres.ro\/2025\/07\/06\/sindicalistii-din-sanatate-si-educatie-vor-protesta-luni-in-fata-parlamentului--1466026?mc_cid=6ad7d0afe7&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\">Agerpres<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Sanitas, which represents healthcare employees, announced its mobilisation alongside other public sector unions. \u201cWe are protesting against the austerity measures that are hitting our members. This is just the beginning,\u201d the union stated.<\/p>\n<p>Education unions are also joining the demonstration. Simion H\u0103ncescu, President of the Federation of Free Trade Unions in Education, said the protest is timed with the government\u2019s move to assume responsibility for the fiscal package in Parliament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is natural that we will be in front of Parliament on Monday. The protest was scheduled at the government. We also have approval for Parliament,\u201d H\u0103ncescu said at a press conference on July 5.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that further actions are possible, including a large-scale mobilisation at the beginning of the school year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I see it, it is very likely that on September 8, the opening of the school year will be on the streets in Bucharest and in all cities in Romania. Teachers will be with students in the streets,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Marius Nistor, President of the Federation of Education Trade Unions \u201cSpiru Haret,\u201d said final decisions on future protests would be taken after educators return to schools on September 1. \u201cWe will very clearly establish the other protest measures that can be triggered with a large-scale action on September 8, and of course, we do not rule out absolutely anything, even a general strike. Our colleagues will decide,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Both union leaders noted that the existence of a collective labour agreement does not prevent them from organising protests in response to government policy.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Inquam Photos\/Octav Ganea)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unionists from the Sanitas Federation and several education sector federations will protest on July 7 in front of the Romanian Parliament against the fiscal measures proposed by the government, which they describe as austerity policies affecting public sector workers, Agerpres reported. Sanitas, which represents healthcare employees, announced its mobilisation alongside other public sector unions. \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}