BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4940

HR-BULLETINS-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4940 HINA Zagreb 1 May 2003TRADE UNIONS MARK MAY 1 BY CALLING ON WORKERS TO UNITEZAGREB, May 1 (Hina) - The leaders of Croatia's union federations called on workers to unite, saying at the central International Labour Day celebration in Zagreb's Maksimir park on Thursday it was the only way to prevent the government and employers from reducing workers' rights. The union federations organised a joint celebration of today's holiday which pooled some 20,000 people, according to journalists' estimates. Citizens were treated to the traditional bean broth accompanied by a day-long entertainment programme. The union leaders said they "will no longer tolerate the irresponsible behaviour of the people in authority who, if they don't take the unions seriously, will share the fate of their predecessors". "Until now we always got the worst of it, because we did not act together, but now the policy of the government and employers, who want to