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Finance Ministry will wire 13.3M leva for rail workers' wages

Mon, Jan 11 2010 14:19 CET

byNick Iliev

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Finance Ministry will wire 13.3M leva for rail workers' wages

Transport Minister Alexander Tsvetkov

Photo: Цветелина Ангелова

The Bulgarian Finance Ministry has said it would wire 13.3 million leva to cover the wages of the Bulgarian State Rail (BDZ) personnel who went on strike on January 11 2010, Bulgarian media reported.

Rail workers staged a demonstration at Sofia Central Station because about 14 500 BDZ staff had not received wages for November 2009.

Protesters said that Transport Minister Alexander Tsvetkov has not fulfilled his promise to guarantee the payment of salaries to BDZ personnel. Meanwhile, their colleagues from the National Railroad Infrastructure Company (NRIC) have been paid in full.

However, as a result of the decision taken by the Finance Ministry, BDZ CEO Pencho Popov said that all BDZ personnel would have their wages paid by January 12, at the latest, Dnevnik reported. Consequently, rail workers have stopped the protest but "remain in preparedness".

The morning protests around Sofia central station meant that some trains were delayed by up to two hours, including international trains bound for Budapest and the train from Thessaloníki to Bucharest. The train from the northwestern town of Vidin had arrived in Sofia after a 30-minute delay.

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