SISAK IRONWORKS WORKERS PROTEST AGAINST UNPAID WAGES

SISAK, Nov 21 (Hina) - About 1,500 workers of Sisak Ironworks and its company Remont Capraga headed from the ironworks to downtown Sisak at exactly noon Thursday by foot, saying they were ready to walk all the way to Zagreb because they did not receive wages. #L# After they waited for the wages to be paid between 10 AM and noon today, which Vice Premier Slavko Linic promised on November 7, the workers in the organisation of the Union Coordinating Body and along with Sisak mayor Dinko Pintaric and members of the town leadership, headed towards Sisak to protests against the fact that they did not receive wages which had been promised to them and to fight for Sisak Ironworks survival. "If the government doesn't need Sisak Ironworks, then it doesn't need Sisak either and the government has thus proclaimed bankruptcy on the town of Sisak," mayor Pintaric said. He said he would support ironworks' employees in the attempt to prevent the closing of the ironworks and bankruptcy of Sisak. Marching towards Sisak, ironworks' workers are shouting: "We Won't Give the Ironworks" and "Linic, You Thief!" The Coordinating Body of two ironworks' unions expects the government to urgently pass a decision as early as today on the payment of two late wages, as Vice Premier Linic had promised. (hina) it sb