The tripartite cooperation council failed to reach agreement on the draft budget for 2023. Caretaker cabinet proposes a 2023 state budget with a 6.4% deficit Both employers and trade unions expressed serious concern over the excessive..
The largest trade union in Bulgaria, CITUB, has called for a 10% wage rise in the budget sector from July 1, 2023 , in order to compensate for projected inflation. The president of the trade union, Plamen Dimitrov, commented that..
"The people are ready for a strike," Ognyan Atanasov - vice president of one of the two largest trade unions in the country, CITUB, has warned in an interview with BNR. He said that the trade union organization has called for a..
CITUB and "Podkrepa" trade unions insist on income growth to compensate for the estimated inflation for the year, but not lower than 15%, Plamen Dimitrov and Dimitar Manolov, leaders of the two unions, said at a joint press..
The two largest trade unions in Bulgaria, KNSB and Podkrepa, are protesting in front of the parliament in defence of the country's energy security. They are dissatisfied with the commitment in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan to cut carbon..
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, employers and trade unions did not agree on the minimum monthly salary. This became clear at a briefing after today's meeting of the National Council for Tripartite Cooperation. Bulgaria’s caretaker..
27% of Bulgarians have difficulties paying their utility bills or report being behind their utility bills, a survey of Eurofound named “The cost-of-living crisis and energy poverty in the EU” show, Bulgaria’s biggest trade union, the Confederation of..
The decision to extend the state budget for 2022 also into 2023 is bad because a number of activities remain underfunded. This was stated by the president of Podkrepa Trade Union, Dimitar Manolov, at the opening of the International Trade Union..
Bulgaria's caretaker Prime Minister Galab Donev met today with the leaders of the nationally representative trade union and employer organizations . The main topics of the discussions were the funds under the European programmes and the Recovery and..
One of the largest trade unions in the country - the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Bulgaria, held a protest under the slogan "Let's protect incomes from inflation and jobs from the crisis". Activists blocked the traffic on the..
