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Following the increasing difficulties cultural and mass-media workers are facing in Romania, the trade union, FAIR-MediaSind asked for the community of European entertainment unions to support the workers and the union in Romania in their campaign for a real social dialogue between the Romanina authorties and the union.

Unions from across Europe, meeting in Brussels on 14 October, expressed their solidarity with their Romanina colleagues and adopted a resolution in support of their demand.

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Sector of UNI Europa, EURO-MEI joins FAIR-MediaSind in calling the Romanian authorities

• compliance with EU directives and ILO conventions on trade union rights, collective bargaining and freedom of expression;
• de-politicization of public service broadcasting, the withdrawal from Parliament of the Draft Law amending the Law regarding the functioning of AGERPRES, initiated by the Minister of Culture, Lucian Romaşcanu;
• unblocking negotiations on collective agreement on the Sector Culture and Mass-Media;
• elimination of discrimination in the Law nr 153/2017 concerning the wages of public employees regarding musicians and ballet dancers;
• renouncement by the Culture Ministry of its intention to divide the culture and mass-media sector.

EURO-MEI believes that the obligations assumed by Romania as a Member State of the European Union must be applied and respected for all citizens, including cultural workers and mass-media and calls the authorities of the Romanian state to dialogue with FAIR-MediaSind representatives, in order to settle existing conflicts and to solve the problems reported.

Download the statement here