Eurasia Press & News
Around 1,000 employees of Romania’s state-run railway company, CFR, have started a protest in Bucharest’s main railway station following government plans to scrap around 12,000 jobs this year.
“Until now, our negotiations with the government have failed, but we still hope a solution will be found in order to save the jobs,” said union leader Gheorghe Popa.
He added that a major protest will be organised in the coming weeks.
The Romanian railway network is owned by the state and employs about 80,000 people. The railway infrastructure requires urgent modernisation: trains run at low speed because of old and poor-quality rails.
