VUKOVAR, March 18 (Hina) - Some of redundant workers of the footwear company Borovo in Vukovar, who on Tuesday morning staged a peaceful rally in that eastern town, decided to continue their protest by gathering in front of the
government building in Zagreb on Thursday morning.
VUKOVAR, March 18 (Hina) - Some of redundant workers of the footwear
company Borovo in Vukovar, who on Tuesday morning staged a peaceful
rally in that eastern town, decided to continue their protest by
gathering in front of the government building in Zagreb on Thursday
morning. #L#
Addressing around 200 protesters, the head of a committee for the
protection of the rights of laid-off employees, that set up the
rally in front of the factory this morning, said they would go to
Zagreb and insist on a meeting with Premier Ivica Racan to acquaint
him with the problems of 1,746 surplus factory workers.
Those redundant workers ask for severance pays which would include
3,000 kuna per year of service of each employee plus the payment of
overdue minimum wages.
The Borovo CEO, Nino Bajza, addressed the protesters this morning
appealing for little more patience given that the management and
the owner of the company, which is the Croatian Privatisation Fund,
were intensively seeking a solution for ensuring funds for
severance pays.
The head of the redundant workers' committee, Branka Balic, said
that in case Racan failed to receive them, they would block the
Borovo plant on 24 March.
Balic said the protesters would accept perhaps lower amounts form
the redundancy pays, but currently nothing was being offered to
them.
A group of 1,746 surplus employee were a part of 8,000 workers of
this company who reported themselves to the Borovo management in
exile in 1991 and 1992, as all of them left Vukovar when it was
overrun by the Serb rebels in November 1991. So far, a majority of
the workers from whose lists have been provided with some
solutions, and at the beginning of this year, the said 1,746 workers
should have been given the notice.
(hina) ms