site.btaUnions in Customs Agency Threaten Protest over Plans for Merger with Revenue Agency

ESD 13:35:00 17-10-2014
SN1334ES.110
110 - ECONOMY - CUSTOMS OFFICERS - PROTEST

Unions in Customs Agency Threaten
Protest over Plans for Merger
with Revenue Agency


Sofia, October 17 (BTA) - The trade unions of customs officers
are threatening protests over plans for merger of the Customs
Agency with the National Revenue Agency. They also call for
discussion of other demands they have, said union leader Stefan
Stefanov on Friday.

There has been talk of merging the two agencies since 2008 but
no government has taken any real step towards that. The idea has
the support of GERB and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms
and the Socialists are opposed to it.

No recent developments in this department are publicly known,
that may have triggered the unions' threat for protests.

The unions say that "certain politicians should stop
manipulating the public with lies". "Their attempts to conceal
own sins by sacrificing the stability of the State are doomed to
fail," the TU statement says.

They urge Boyko Borissov in his capacity as leader of the party
that won the most votes in the October 5 elections and the
likely Prime Minister of the next government,
not to give in to the pressure "behind which demonic intentions
lurk". "We know who the ideologues are and what they are after,"
the unions say in their strong-worded statement.

They side with their colleagues of the security sector who
complain that the authorities are trampling on the lawful right
to social dialogue and the right to know.
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