site.btaSofia Municipal Council Greenlight Pay Rise by BGN 300 for Public Transport Workers, Pave Way to Lifting Blockade

The Sofia Municipal Council Monday gave the green light to a pay rise of BGN 300 each for public transport workers and thus sealed a deal that would end a six-day protest of public transport workers. The head of the transport committee of the Sofia Municipal Council, Ivan Takov of BSP for Bulgaria, said they had proposed an increase in the economic framework as of April 1 by BGN 300 for all public transport employees.

Takov explained that at Monday's joint sitting of the committees on transport, on economy, on property, on digital transformation, and on finance and budget, the municipal councillors adopted a decision to send a position to the Urban Mobility Centre, which has to send an economic framework on transport for 2025 to the Sofia Municipal Council within two days. This framework will be reviewed at a meeting on May 29.