The short strike came after the railway unions and the Ministry of Transports and Infrastructure had reached an agreement which stated that salaries were to be frozen for this year, 3.700 employees would be dismissed and further 4.000 would see their bonuses slashed.
Further turmoil is expected, since the compromise agreement will not generate enough cutbacks on the expenses side in order to compensate the much lower revenues of the state railway companies. Confirming this, CFR Calatori, the national passenger carrier, announced that it needs to access a credit line in order to put its finances back in order. However, such solutions will only postpone the same result - that is total collapse - that can only be avoided if the state takes decisive actions and recapitalizes the railway companies with sums on the order of billions of RON.
