Ulaanbaatar
Trade Unions: Government breaches Collective bargaining agreement
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Confederation of Mongolian Trade Unions called a press conference to make a statement that the Government breaches Collective bargaining agreement on labor and social welfare when reaching the staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund to implement Extended Fund Facility program.
'- Increase of tax rates or creating new tax and social issues related to salary and pension should be discussed with other parties of the Collective bargaining agreement. The parties also agreed that any financial programs relating to overcoming economic difficulties would be implemented ensuring not to worsen livelihood and keeping employment rate and increasing jobs. All these articles of the Collective bargaining agreement would be breached in the agreement on the Extended Fund Facility program. Therefore, we will start "Collective dispute” said the President of the Confederation Kh.Amgalanbaatar.
"If collective dispute is not solved, final measures will be strike and trade unions. Hope that it won’t go further to that step".
