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Over 6,000 people protested at Dacia Pitesti

The employees "do not want bread and circus, they want only bread," the vice president of Dacia Automobile Union, Ion Iordache said.

Over 6,000 persons participated yesterday at the meeting organized by the union of Dacia plant in front of the Cultural Center of the Unions from Mioveni, some of the participants making use of drums, Mediafax informs.

The president of the National Unionist Block (BNS), Dumitru Costin, told the protesters that he had spoken with the minister of economy, Adriean Videanu, about the situation from Dacia, and the latter promised to support them. The vice president of Automobile Dacia Union, Ion Iordache also said that the employees from Dacia "do not want bread and circus, they want only bread." "We have come to import all sorts of products from around the world, we have come to import matches, and all these imports to the detriment of the Romanian products mean the dissolution of the jobs. This is what happens also with the cars if the Government allows a tax that will stimulate the import of cars, we shall be in danger to go all of us home. Don't allow to be manipulated, join your forces," the unionist leader from Dacia told the protesters.

The demonstrators chanted slogans such as "Unity," "We must join forces," "Save Dacia" and "We don't go home." Representatives of the Gendarmerie and Police were mobilized on the site, the organizers of the meeting being allowed to organise the protest between 12.00 and 13.00 hours.

The meeting closed without incidents, at 13.00 h. The president of Automobile Dacia Union, Nicolae Pavelescu, declared that the protest of yesterday was the first of a series of such actions that will take place at Mioveni and within the plant. "We shall organize these meetings until the Government understands to protect its car industry with major contributions from GDP, and the related jobs. We shall not accept to turn Mioveni and the surrounding localities into a vale of tears, and we think not only to the present, but also to the future of the children," Pavelescu said.

Yesterday at 14.00 h., a meeting was expected at the Cultural Center of the Unions from Mioveni organized by Dacia union and employers' association, where the representatives of the Government, the president of Arges County Council, Constantin Nicolescu, the prefect of Arges, Ion Popa, MPs of the country and the mayors of Pitesti and Mioveni and the neighbouring communes were invited.

According to a press release of Dacia remitted on Monday to Mediafax agency, the unionists who are in technical unemployment will be paid 85 per cent of the gross individual salary, according to the 2008 collective labour contract. The general manager of Automobile Dacia, Francois Fourmont, also announced on Monday evening that besides the interruption of production for another two weeks, it was decided to not extend 300 labour contracts on determined period which expire at the end of this month.

 

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