Chisinau marks International Workers' Solidarity Day

Chisinau, 1 May /MOLDPRES/- Chisinau today marked the International Workers' Solidarity Day. President Igor Dodon participated in the demonstrations.

On the occasion of 1 May, the General Council of the National Confederation of Trade Unions of Moldova issued a statement on opting for ensuring fundamental rights to work, decent wage, health, safety and social protection at work. The unions’ leadership voiced concern about the low level of social and economic guarantees offered by state and the lack of promising obligations to promote policies that will lead to raising the living standards of the people. Also, the trade unions call on the social partners of all levels to focus their efforts to ensure decent pay job and provide employment facilities for young people.

The Party of Socialists organized a march of “solidarity and social justice”. Attending the event were also the Moldovan President with the family, as well as few MPs from the Russian Federation.

Dodon said that 1 May is the celebration of working people, the highest value of the country. “I signed a decree granting a number of state distinctions to several simple people, including stitches, sweepers and tractor drivers”, he said.

The Workers’ Solidarity Day is celebrated today in 66 states. In 1889, the Congress of Socialist International decreed the day of 1 May as the International Labor Day, in memory of the victims of the general strike in Chicago, the day being commemorated by workers’ demonstrations. Over time, 1 May has become the celebration of workers’ movements in most countries of the world, various demonstrations growing as the authorities agreed with the trade unions that this day would be day off, and work standard reduced to eight hours a day.

(Reporter A. Zara, editor M. Jantovan)