Today, a meeting was held at Sofia Municipality regarding the negotiation of a new Social Cooperation Agreement between Sofia Municipality and the trade unions.

The meeting was attended by the Chairman of FTTU - Eng. Aleksandar Shopov, and the Chairmen of the Syndical Organizations at "Stolichan Electrotransport", "Stolichan Avtotransport" and "Metropolitan".

Representing the municipality were the Deputy Mayors for Transport and Finance, as well as the directors of the Sofia public transport companies.

Before the representatives of the municipality, FTTU presented the position of the workers, formulated after a series of meetings held over the past week in the transport companies:

- The main demand of all workers is a basic salary increase by a fixed and equal amount for all employees in the sector.

- Absolute disagreement with the salary increase of 100 BGN proposed by Sofia Municipality.

Sofia Municipality presented its calculations, according to which an increase in salaries of more than 100 BGN would lead to a further increase in the budget deficit. With the proposed 100 BGN increase, the deficit is estimated at 20 million BGN.

Federation of Transport Trade Unions continues to insist that the state must be responsible for public transport and financially support the municipality by providing the necessary funds for salary growth.

In response to the lack of progress in the negotiations, a joint meeting between FTTU-CITUB and FTR to CL "Podkrepa" is scheduled for tomorrow to discuss subsequent protest and strike actions.