trade unions

At the call of the Federation of Education and Science Trade Unions, education workers across the country are holding an action of “awareness and union pressure” on Tuesday, December 16, under the slogan “Dignity for Education – Solidarity for a Fair Future”, according to Logos Press.

For some reason it is more profitable for the state, as the main employer, to go into debt and spend loans on endless subsidies and social transfers than to expand the tax base. Otherwise, the refusal to raise the minimum wage to European standards, proposed by trade unions, cannot be explained. And wages – in an envelope or not – are a matter of sleight of hand. Moreover, according to the rules of the game established by the state.

The National Confederation of Trade Unions of Moldova (CNSM) expressed its deep concern and disagreement with the lack of transparency and social dialog in the process of drafting the Law on State Budget and the Law on State Social Insurance Budget for 2026. The trade unions made this statement on December 4.

The National Confederation of Trade Unions of Moldova demands that the authorities raise salaries in the public sector and increase the prime rate to 3000 lei.

Trade unions want the minimum wage to be set at 8050 lei in 2026, the Finance Ministry is considering a more restrained option – up to 6050 lei, while employers warn that a sharp increase would jeopardize the work of small and medium-sized enterprises, Logos Press reports.

Moldovan trade unions are demanding a “breakthrough” in wages so that the country does not enter the European Union as the poorest. Sergiu Sainciuc, deputy chairman of the National Confederation of Trade Unions, said that the minimum wage of 5,500 lei “is not bad in principle, but it is too low,” while the required minimum should be 8,000 lei – half of the projected average wage, Logos Press reported.