01-31-2003, 02:41 AM
BUCHAREST - Romanian carmaker Dacia, owned by Renault, said on Thursday it was in talks with trade unions to avert a strike at its plant.
Unions representing 90 percent of the plant's 16,400 staff have threatened a strike in coming weeks if Renault fails to increase wages by 23.3 percent by the end of the year.
"Fresh talks will start next Monday. Dacia's management will propose to trade unionists a 14 percent wage hike in line with inflation," spokesman Silviu Sepciu told Reuters by phone from the Mioveni plant, 130 km (81 miles) west of Bucharest.
Sepciu said the management also was considering plans to propose a new bonus system for its workers.
Dacia remains the market leader in Romania in 2002, selling 57,000 units of its locally produced Dacia brand, and sees its sales rising to about 67,000 this year.
The plant is undergoing a vast restructuring program to meet the French firm's plans to turn Dacia into its number-two brand after its own, by launching a 5,000-euro model that would help it break even in 2004-2005.
Unions representing 90 percent of the plant's 16,400 staff have threatened a strike in coming weeks if Renault fails to increase wages by 23.3 percent by the end of the year.
"Fresh talks will start next Monday. Dacia's management will propose to trade unionists a 14 percent wage hike in line with inflation," spokesman Silviu Sepciu told Reuters by phone from the Mioveni plant, 130 km (81 miles) west of Bucharest.
Sepciu said the management also was considering plans to propose a new bonus system for its workers.
Dacia remains the market leader in Romania in 2002, selling 57,000 units of its locally produced Dacia brand, and sees its sales rising to about 67,000 this year.
The plant is undergoing a vast restructuring program to meet the French firm's plans to turn Dacia into its number-two brand after its own, by launching a 5,000-euro model that would help it break even in 2004-2005.
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