The municipal councilors of the Party of Socialists requested acting mayor Nistor Grozavu to immediately sign an order to dismiss Gheorghe Morgoci from the post of director of the Chisinau Electric Transport Company. In the September 20 meeting of the Chisinau Municipal Council, the Socialist councilors presented an application from the Company’s employees, who say that work in the trolleybus depots is humiliating, IPN reports.
Socialist councilor Eugenia Ceban said the employees explain why Morgoci should be immediately dismissed. “You mislead the personnel. You don’t turn on the heat in trolleybuses on the instruction of Chirtoaca and do other foolish things. The Company’s employees do not have toilets and eateries. This is embarrassing,” stated Ceban, requesting that Gheorghe Morgoci should present a copy of his diploma as she suspects he does not have higher education.
For his part, Gheorghe Morgoci said what the Labor Inspectorates calls violations are actually the result of the non-fulfillment of a Government decision to increase the minimum guaranteed salary from 1,650 lei to 2,380 lei. However, from July 1 the salaries were raised to 2,100 lei, while from January 1, 2018 will be increased to 2,380 lei.
He noted that the average salary of an employee of the Chisinau Electric Transport Company is of over 6,600 lei. The trolleybus drivers get over 7,000 lei a month, while conductors about 5,000 lei. However, the Company now needs 100 conductors and the salary fund for these employees is of 40 million lei. The problem could be solved by implementing the electronic ticketing system in trolleybuses.
Gheorghe Morgoci also said that the cost price of a trip by trolleybuses is 3.44 lei and the net income that the Company obtains from selling a ticket is of 1.74 lei.
He reminded that the Chisinau Electric Transport Company during the last few years had been outfitted with new trolleybuses, which were either bought or assembled in Chisinau. Requests come from ex-Soviet states to exchange experience in trolleybus assembly. “I’m proud of what was done at the Company and I’m not afraid to be dismissed. I’m morally ready to leave even today,” he stated.
