New industrial conflict at Roman SA in Brasov

The employees at the Dacia Renault Pitesti working location at the Roman SA plant in Brasov only entered the facility yesterday morning with a Police intervention having challenged in court the June decision of the majority shareholder in the truck making plant banning them for entering the premises, Mediafax informs.

Ioan Neculae, the majority shareholder in the truck building factory on June 13 prohibited the nearly 80 staff of Dacia Renault from Pitesti from entering the Roman plant over contractual differences of the two companies. 1,500 individual were made redundant as the Roman truck parts used to be delivered by the ‘Presses’ unit of the Dacia working location.

Under a court decision passed by the Bucharest Tribunal, Roman SA was ordered to allow the ‘employees, collaborators, suppliers and customers of Automobile Dacia SA into the plant.’

The judgment was executed on Monday morning and the 80 Dacia employees working in Brasov were able to enter the plant again, but only helped by the Police, because nearly 150 employees of the truck plan took to the yard to protest. Roman SA union leader and President of Cartel Alfa Brasov Fanica Gabor claims that there were 1,500 employees in the yard of the facility.

‘We are not happy about our people having to work for Dacia. We cannot ask for a raise because we need to meet the losses caused by the people from Dacia’ Gabor said. Ioan Neculaie is displeased by the fact that the Dacia Pitesti representatives refuse to re-negotiate the lease on the 32,000 sq m of facility. He claims that he incurs a yearly loss of RON 200,000 – 300,000. Neculaie says that Dacia Renault was six month behind with the rent and refuses to re-negotiate the lease agreement.