Salary Union collects signatures for initiative setting same salaries for same job at EU level

Representatives of the Salary Union are collecting signatures in the counties of Transylvania with a view to support a legislative initiative at EU level that will set equal salaries in all EU countries for the same job, on Sunday told a news conference in northwestern Satu Mare, Gyongyosi Marton, chairman of the Salary Union initiative and Jobbik deputy in the Hungarian Parliament.

This spring a citizen's initiative was kicked off by which the principle of salary equality or equal incomes for equal job, was formulated. Representatives of seven countries, that are to address the European Commission or the European Union's bodies with a view to even the incomes in the European Union, have met, because 30 years have passed since the regimes were changed, we are 10-year members of the European Union, more than 10-year members we wait to up to the Western or Europe's level, and yet we need the equalization of the incomes, too, both among East and West. Unfortunately, we found that instead of nearing the Western living standard, we are more and more left behind. We've decided to join forces and we, the representatives of seven countries of Central and Eastern Europe, should try to impose ourselves, Gyongyosi Marton said. 

He specified that by May 2018 over 1,000,000 signatures must be gathered in entire EU to uphold the initiative in the European Parliament, over 100,000 being collected so far. 

We'll initiate public stands, in the street so we see how open to our initiative the people are. We've found that a huge interest towards this initiative exists and practically there is no person we could not appeal to. The young are interested in this initiative, because they are whose who sooner or later leave the country to get a better paid job abroad, and the elder notice that their grandchildren leave them to work abroad, the Hungarian deputy added. 

The Salary Union representative on Romania's behalf, Dragos Tirnoveanu said that Romania must gather 24,000 signatures, and that a few thousands are already clustered.