Subway workers will thus be on strike on Thursday, between 4.00 and 6.00 local time, while a general strike could start as soon as next Monday, and would halt subway activities between 04.00 and 16.00.
“We apologize to the travelling public for the discomfort which will be created by stopping the Bucharest metro for two hours, but as all Romanian citizens we have this constitutional right (…) It will last two hours, between 4 and 6 in the morning, and the general strike will last between 4 and 16, most probably on Monday morning,” said in a press statement Ion Radoi, the president of the Subway Free Syndicates Union.
Negotiations for a new collective labor contract for subway workers have stalled, as Metrorex representatives announced that they cannot legally accept the union’s wage increase demands due to budget constraints.