Strike alert at PSA Peugeot Citroën in Trnava

The trade union at the PSA Peugeot Citroën plant in Trnava on Friday announced that it was going into 'strike alert' as of noon on the same day following the failure of a mediator from the Labour, Social Affairs and the Family Ministry to arrange an agreement with the employer at collective bargaining talks. "At the same time we're beginning to collect signatures in order to announce a full-fledged strike," trade union vice-chairman Marek Vitek told TASR. They need more than 50 percent of core employees for that. With more than 2,700 employees at the plant, Vitek expects that the trade union will manage to collect the required number of signatures within around three weeks. The collective bargaining process was shipwrecked with the union's demand of a fixed salary increase, while the carmaker offered only one-off bonuses that didn't reach the amount required by the trade union.