ZAGREB, Feb 20 (Hina) - Premier Ivica Racan has described the announcement of a strike to be staged by a union of some employees with the Croatian Power Industry (HEP) as a sheer threat and blackmailing.
ZAGREB, Feb 20 (Hina) - Premier Ivica Racan has described the
announcement of a strike to be staged by a union of some employees
with the Croatian Power Industry (HEP) as a sheer threat and
blackmailing. #L#
Those are no longer legitimate announcements of a strike but
threats and blackmailing, Racan said at the beginning of a
government session on Thursday.
The union called "Tehnos", which gathers a smaller number of
workers in the HEP company, has announced a strike for 4 March and
threatened to discontinue power supply to some users if its demands
are not met.
Tehnos is openly saying that it will go on strike, but also that it
will work in a manner so as to prevent others from doing their jobs,
torment citizens, and is announcing the power cuts first in
households then in hospitals, kindergartens, Racan said adding
those were threats against those who ensured the existence of those
workers.
Premier stressed that there was no reason for concern as there would
be no power cuts.
"The provision of electricity for households, hospitals,
kindergartens will not be discontinued. Before managing to carry
out threats, those who are threatening will be excluded," Racan
warned.
He added that the HEP would brace itself for the announced
industrial action of a part of its employees, and he had asked this
state-run company and bodies of the state prosecution to do their
share of job in the protection of citizens.
Of some 15,000 HEP employees, the Tehnos union gathers 1,700
workers. It has announced the work stoppage as of 4 March if it fails
to agree with the company's management on the valuation and
coefficients of the jobs its members do in the production and
transmission of power supply.
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