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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