The leader of CITUB Plamen Dimitrov said the industry in Bulgaria scored one of the highest profits in the EU but pays the lowest wages. According to one worker teksilnata Industry in Bulgaria takes an average salary of 276 euros a month. For comparison, the textile workers in Spain earn an average of 1600 euros per month for the same work.
Even in professions requiring higher education such as pharmacy, an employee in Bulgaria receives six times lower salary than their counterparts in the EU. According to Dimitrov, the question that wages in Bulgaria do not meet the production should be at the forefront of the institutions.
According to CITUB in all neighboring countries of Bulgaria, the workforce receive much higher salaries compared to Bulgaria. The only exception is Albania, where the average and minimum wages are lower than in our country.
According to the business problem of low pay comes from businesses in the informal sector. For reyaenieto this problem runs throughout the EU. Luc Triangle, Secretary General of IndustriALL European Trade Union announced that European trade unions will work diligently idea to introduce a single minimum wage for all EU countries.