“There is a need to raise people’s incomes, because their cost of living has increased. End of story!”, contends Dimitar Manolov, President of the Confederation of Labor “Podkrepa”. Bulgaria’s two largest trade unions - the Confederation of Labor..
According to The Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Bulgaria (CITUB), the real inflation in the small consumer basket for the country is 45%. "A year ago, a litre or a kilo of the 20 goods and services we purchase every day - bread, milk,..
Bulgaria's largest trade union, the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB), said workers at the Maritsa Iztok 2 coal-fired power plant are ready to strike. The trade union organization of the power plant has filed a strike..
"There is social tension in all sectors. People are getting poorer every day and if this process is not curbed, social tension will turn into a bomb," Todor Kapitanov, vice president of the largest national trade union - CITUB, has..
The largest Bulgarian trade union CITUB (Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria) has requested an extraordinary meeting of the Consultative Council for the European Green Deal , because of the Road Map to climate neutrality. The union is..
“We will come out stronger from the crisis, but we are now in the eye of the storm. The turbulence is extremely big”, Bulgaria’s Minister of Finance Assen Vassilev said during the economic forum “The Noise of Money” which took place on June 7...
Incomes should increase with at least 12%-15% on an annual basis, so they can reach decent levels. In five years, the average monthly salary should reach EUR 1,685 and the minimum salary shold amount to EUR 870, the President of the Confederation of..
In the first quarter of this year, 10 people have died in accidents at work, as there were a total of 600 workplace accidents in Bulgaria . This is shown by data from the National Social Security Institute. The data was presented by the largest..
"Equal work deserves equal pay. When there is pay discrimination, women have the right to fight to get what they deserve.” These words are of the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. The right to equal pay for men and women for..
The budgets of Bulgaria’s households have been subject to significant price pressure. “Not so long ago, we could go shopping with EUR 10-15. Now, we spend twice more on the same products and our salaries have not seen any increase at all”,..
