The strike by workers on Bucharest’s metro – which had crippled the city for the past two days – ended this morning as trains once again began running on the city’s four metro lines. The strike had been declared illegal late yesterday by a Bucharest court.
The Metro trade union now has ten days to appeal the decision.
Now, a question for you:
Where does the money from commercial rights on the Bucharest metro go? (As in all that revenue from advertising on station platforms, in the trains themselves, rents from all the kiosks etc.)
Does it go to…
(a) The metro operator, Metrorex, in order to improve metro services and cut down the subsidy it has to receive from the cash-strapped government?
or
(b) The Metro trade union, which pockets 75 per cent of all commercial revenue?
Answers on a postcard to the usual address.
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@Craig: and kill Jimmy Hoffa =))
They spend it on holidays for metro staff I assume. And they have the cheek to strike for an 18 per cent wage increase? Sack the lot of them and ban the unions!
I know personally the people who administer the 75%.
Not sure who gets the other 25 per cent (it might even – shock – go to Metrorex) but oh yes, it is the ‘Brothers’ who get the main share.
You have got to be kidding ???? Who gets the 25% ?