A number of 5,000 trade unionists will participate in a solidarity march on May 1, when it is marked the International Workers’ Day. The event is organized by the National Confederation of Trade Unions of Moldova, IPN reports.
According to a communiqué from the Confederation, the participants in the march will demand that the authorities take steps to immediately solve the socioeconomic problems of the salary earners.
The march will be staged in the municipality of Chisinau, starting at 10am. The marchers will go from the square of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova up to the Great National Assembly Square.
In 1889, the International Socialist Congress declared May 1 as the International Workers’ Day in memory of the victims of the Chicago general strike of 1886. The day is commemorated by marches and protests.
