A few dozen of police officers, members of the National Union of Police Officers and Contractual Staff (SNPPC) as well as several employees of penitentiaries are protesting on Wednesday in front of the Internal Affairs Ministry (MAI) seat, displeased with the under-financing of the public order system.
The trade unionists are sounding vuvuzzelas, beating drums and waiving placards that read: "Over 60 percent of MAI employees have minimum wage", "Allow us to report, your abuses we can take no more", "Citizens, police officers are at your service but gov't officials keep stealing their money".
Chairman of the Trade Unions Federation of the National Penitentiary Administration (FSANP) Sorin Dumitrascu stated for AGERPRES that the issues the penitentiaries' employees have to face are similar to those of police officers.
"This is about the under-financing of the penitentiary system, the same is happening in the police's case, as a matter of fact the entire public order system is in the same situation, it has to do with the labour conditions and precarious endowment. There haven't been made any investments in labour conditions in a long time and the endowment is still at the '70s level ," Dumitrascu said.
Moreover, he said that the penitentiaries' employees request a legislation and an institutional framework to protect them from the almost daily "aggressions" of the people they hold in custody.
Asked about the situation of overtime within penitentiaries, Dumitrascu replied that over 1 million unpaid overtime hours have amassed in the last two years.
AGERPRES .
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