BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4815

HR-BULLETIN-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4815 HINA Zagreb 26 November 2002METAL WORKERS GO ON 15-MINUTE STRIKE TO SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH SISAKZAGREB, Nov 26 (Hina) - Workers in many companies in the Croatian metal manufacturing sector, went on a 15-minute strike at noon on Tuesday to show solidarity with employees of the Sisak Ironworks, the Metal Workers' Union (SMH) reported. Workers in the "Uljanik" shipyard, a few big companies such as "Djuro Djakovic", "Koncar" and "Dalekovod" and many smaller firms, discontinued their work for some 15 minutes at noon also in protest over the recent police intervention during a Sisak workers' protest. The aim of this industrial action is to warn the government about the dissatisfying tempo and manner of the restructuring of state-run companies, the union's leader, Ivo Marjanovic, told Hina. The slowness of commercial courts in bankruptcy processes does not help companies to be restructured and they usually go into liquidation, Marjano