Some 70 members of the Civil Servants Trade Union sent a message from the rally in parliament to the Government saying that the state administration could not function without qualified jurists, economists and computer experts, stressing however, that it also needed qualified cooks, waiters, electricians, drivers, heating service employees, for whom the unionists said were underpaid.
The branches of the civil servants' trade union in parliament and the government decided that their members would not go on strike today because many of them were on vacation.
The union branches also said the Government must be given an opportunity to improve the situation in the state administration sector by implementing the law on civil servants, which is scheduled to go into force on 1 January 2006.