Lithuania: towards a compromise between unions and government on the auterity policy to avoid social conflict

a particularly intense week. Following the project to cut civil servants’ pay and the announcement of a drastic austerity policy, the key union organization organized hunger strikes. Subject to dual pressure, from unions and from a Parliament majority, the government finally backed down and accepted to establish a work group with unions to think about ways to face the public finance crisis. (Ref. 090704)

An austerity policy unions qualify of “groundless.” On Friday, June 27, a decree was publis