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Tbilisi Metro resumes service as drivers and Mayor Kaladze reach agreement

by OC Media

•4 min read

The Tbilisi Metro resumed functioning Wednesday afternoon, after metro drivers union Ertoba 2013 reached an agreement with Mayor Kakha Kaladze and his office. The metro had been closed since Monday morning, when after being barred from going on strike by the courts, drivers began a hunger strike instead, making them physically unfit to work. Kaladze thanked the metro drivers and said the Mayor’s Office had ‘reached a compromise with workers’, saying that the matter of pay rises would be rev

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Mayor Kaladze dismisses striking metro drivers’ demands as Tbilisi metro closes

by OC Media

•3 min read

Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze has dismissed demands by metro drivers for higher pay. The Tbilisi Metro shut down on Monday, less than a day after metro drivers began a hunger strike. Passengers were not warned in advance about the possible shut down, only to see a message about it posted on station entrances, offering free bus rides instead. Traffic jams, overcrowded buses, and a shortage of taxis were reported on Monday morning. The Tbilisi Transport Company, who operates the metro, have con

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Tbilisi metro ‘to shut’ as metro drivers go on hunger strike

by OC Media

•2 min read

The Tbilisi Metro is likely to shut down on Monday, as metro drivers have gone on hunger strike. On Sunday, dozens of drivers gathered to announce they are using their ‘non-working hours’ to go on hunger strike after a Georgian court ruled they could only go on strike during their off-hours. In its ruling on 21 March, Tbilisi City Court indefinitely forebode metro drivers’ union Ertoba 2013 from going on strike ‘during working hours’. The drivers said the Tbilisi Transport Company, who oper

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Tbilisi court indefinitely bans metro strike ‘during working hours’

by OC Media

•4 min read

Tbilisi City Court has indefinitely banned drivers from the Tbilisi Metro from going on strike. Protesters gathered on Tuesday in front of the central Rustaveli Metro Station in support of the drivers, with unions vowing to go ahead with the strike and to take the case to the Constitutional Court. In its Monday ruling, the court forebode metro drivers’ union Ertoba 2013 from going on strike ‘during working hours’. A strike is the refusal to work as a form of organised protest. Tuesday’s d

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Tbilisi metro drivers’ strike postponed by court

by OC Media

•3 min read

Tbilisi metro drivers who demand to have their salaries increased by 45% will be allowed to legally go on strike in a month, the Tbilisi City Court ruled on 2 May. The strike was originally planned for 3 May and was postponed after metro operator Tbilisi Transport Company appealed to the court. On 18 April, Tbilisi metro drivers demanded a salary raise due to harsh working conditions. They warned they would go on strike on 3 May, causing paralysis to whole metro system. Drivers said an aver

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‘Fourteen injured’ in Tbilisi Metro collapse

by OC Media

•2 min read

At least fourteen people have been injured after the roof of a metro station collapsed in the Georgian capital. The suspended ceiling of the Varketili Metro Station in the east of Tbilisi collapsed at 10:30 on 30 January, according to the Tbilisi Transport Company. Health and Labour Minister Davit Sergeenko said the injured have been taken to four hospitals. Local media have reported that two of the injured were ‘severely wounded’. By 14:20, the Interior Ministry confirmed that fourteen p