ZAGREB, Oct 16 (Hina) - The Croatian Association of Trade Unions (HUS) has decided to back down on the "Partnership for Peace" agreement, stating that conditions for the implementation of the agreement, signed last December, had not
been created.
ZAGREB, Oct 16 (Hina) - The Croatian Association of Trade Unions
(HUS) has decided to back down on the "Partnership for Peace"
agreement, stating that conditions for the implementation of the
agreement, signed last December, had not been created. #L#
The implementation of the social agreement between the government
and four union federations represented in the Economic-Social
Council (GSV) has not even started because implementation
documents have not been adopted, nor has its implementation been
discussed at GSV sessions, HUS president Zdenko Mucnjak told
reporters.
The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Croatia (SSSH) and
the Association of Workers' Trade Unions of Croatia (URSH) had
previously backed down on the agreement, so that the only remaining
signatory is the Council of Croatian Public Service Workers
Unions.
The HUS believes that the government has not committed itself yet to
dialogue with its partners, in which the most important economic
and social decisions would be adopted by consensus.
That is why at its next meeting with the social partners the HUS will
propose "freezing" the agreement until better times and shifting to
tripartite dialogue through the GSV, Mucnjak said.
Speaking about the government's ignoring the social partners in the
adoption of important decisions, Mucnjak mentioned the non-
transparent privatisation of the insurance company "Croatia
osiguranje" and the reform of the Defence Ministry, a process in
which he said unions were not consulted with regard to providing for
redundant employees.
(hina) rml