Our View: Municipal strike reflection on slapdash local government reform

Municipalities staged a three-hour strike on Monday morning. This was not a workers’ strike called by their unions for better pay, but a strike called by the Union of Municipalities in protest against the insufficient funding from central government. They are demanding more money because they claim current annual funding is inadequate.

Mayors claim that the reform of local government that was introduced two years ago burdened the merged municipalities with additional authorities, increased...