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In Protest Action waved flags of LPSDPS and UNI

2011-12-14

Lithuanian Service Workers Trade Union representatives participated in protest action organized by eight trade union centers.

UNI organization, which is member of LPSDPS, also publicized the event.

Trade unions demand:

- Increase the minimum wage to 1000 LTL from 1^st of January 2012.
- Increase the basic monthly salary for the budget sector workers' and the basic amount of civil servants’ salary.
- Increase employment by creating new jobs.
- Reduce labor taxation.
- Restore state pensions for officials and soldiers, as well as compensation costs for the employees of theater and concert facilities.
- Restart payments for low-income families raising children.
- Introduce the progressive taxation system to reduce social exclusion.
- Reduce the costs for heat, electricity and the essential food products.
- Make amendments to labor legislation only after having reached the agreement with trade unions and employers organizations.
- Ratify the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 102 on minimum social protection standards.
- Ensure the freedom of association, meetings, demonstrations and other public ways to express people’s will.
- Ensure the right of workers to go on strike, to prevent the prosecution of workers' representatives.
- Ensure the real right of citizens to hold a referendum.

More about the event at website lprofsajungos.lt  

Also, a day before the meeting trade unions received response to the demands from prime minister’s office.

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