TUFEMI is a Member of the European Police Union. How many of you have witnessed the creation of a trade union? Do you know any newly created trade union of employees in the Ministry of Interior? In your opinion, what should happened to make sector “Security” organize themselves and create a new organization, that is an alternative to all currently existing? One of the reasons is that often verbal
flood drown the truth, because of which we have started talking in first place. Another reason is that often during the process of talking, it changes or the dialogue turns into criticism, ending in obsequiously laudation. Often laudation and criticism magically turn into excuses and the voice of the truth goes down, not so much from fear but from the feeling that there is no sense to be said. In the Bulgarian Interior Ministry we were detaining our truths, locked deep down in us, for years and we did not let them go out. For years, union leaders who had to defend our rights and fight for a decent working conditions and life, succumb to their instinct of self-preservation, which ingloriously push them to the roads of circumbendibus, weasel and redefined thoughts, in the mist that they have obligingly maintained, in order to able to escape. For years, the opportunities that were provided (very rare), which were about sharing our opinion, standing our position and speaking the truth, has been skipped on purpose. This did not relieve the employees of the Ministry of Interior. This did not make the service with higher quality or the citizens more pleased of the functions of the law enforcement. On the contrary! This made our problems more serious, deepened them to a very high level and caused spontaneous resentment of the employees of the Ministry of Interior, passed naturally through self-organization and the creation of the trade union. The year is 2009! TUFEMI / Trade Union Federation of the Employees in the Ministry of Interior / was created! The federation has been created, because there was a need of solution to many problems. Before we started searching for their solutions, we had to introduce them to the public… and we had to give a start to a real and effective social dialogue. The reality brought us to the necessity of the appearance of new subject or more specifically new content in the trade union of the employees in the Ministry of Interior in Republic of Bulgaria.
