ZAGREB, Feb 17 (Hina) - The Union of Croatian Railway Workers (SHZ) will organise a protest rally in downtown Zagreb on Tuesday, demanding the Croatian Railway (HZ) management increase the price of labour of passenger and cargo
transport workers and workers maintaining engines and carriages.
ZAGREB, Feb 17 (Hina) - The Union of Croatian Railway Workers (SHZ)
will organise a protest rally in downtown Zagreb on Tuesday,
demanding the Croatian Railway (HZ) management increase the price
of labour of passenger and cargo transport workers and workers
maintaining engines and carriages. #L#
The protesters will gather at 10.30 am at the city's main railway
station, from where they will set out towards government and
parliament buildings in St. Mark's Square, where some 300 union
representatives will decide about a possible strike, union leader
Ivan Forgac said.
Forgac said that today's talks between the union and the HZ
management had not yielded any results.
Tomorrow's protest is the latest in a series of rallies organised by
the union at railway stations in all bigger Croatian towns since
February 5.
The SHZ, which gathers 3,700 of 16,000 HZ workers, did not sign the
current collective agreement claiming it met the needs of only 20%
of HZ workers.
The union demands an average increase of 20% in the price of labour,
an increase of 25% for work under difficult conditions, and merit
awards of 20% as well as investments in the improvement of work
conditions.
The union opposes the restructuring of the HZ, particularly the
division of its sectors into separate daughter-companies, claiming
this would be used as a pretext for new layoffs.
(hina) rml