ZAGREB, Jan 4 (Hina) - Leaders of five workers' union federations on Thursday condemned statements of Croatian First Deputy Prime Minister Goran Granic and president of the Croatian People's Party and parliament representative Vesna
Pusic given in a Wednesday evening interview for Croatian Television. Asked to comment on a joint statement of workers' union federations demanding the government to withdraw a conclusion on the freezing of wages and an announcement on the cancellation of collective agreements, Granic said such threats of trade unions were only entertaining, while Pusic said that considering 20 percent of unemployed persons, trade unions were not a significant factor in the society. Leaders of workers' union federations harshly condemned such public statements of Croatia's two senior state officials, adding they had proved they were not pro social partnership. The trade unions officials a
ZAGREB, Jan 4 (Hina) - Leaders of five workers' union federations on
Thursday condemned statements of Croatian First Deputy Prime
Minister Goran Granic and president of the Croatian People's Party
and parliament representative Vesna Pusic given in a Wednesday
evening interview for Croatian Television.
Asked to comment on a joint statement of workers' union federations
demanding the government to withdraw a conclusion on the freezing
of wages and an announcement on the cancellation of collective
agreements, Granic said such threats of trade unions were only
entertaining, while Pusic said that considering 20 percent of
unemployed persons, trade unions were not a significant factor in
the society.
Leaders of workers' union federations harshly condemned such
public statements of Croatia's two senior state officials, adding
they had proved they were not pro social partnership. The trade
unions officials added that Pusic and Granic did not understand the
foundations of the market economy.
"It is inadmissible for the Croatian First Deputy Prime Minister to
give statements that unions' demands were entertaining, regardless
of the full gravity of the situation which caused the demands, and
that the president of the party which had initiated the idea on
200,000 new jobs during the four year mandate of the new
authorities, is not aware that there were over 22.5 percent
unemployed persons in Croatia", read a statement issued by the
trade union federations.
Representatives of workers' union federations believe that Granic
and Pusic should apologise to members of the trade unions, read the
statement signed by Zdenko Mucnjak (the Association of Workers'
Trade Unions of Croatia), Dalibor Kuba (the Matrix of Croatian
Unions of Public Professions, Kresimir Sever (Croatia's
Independent Trade Unions), Davor Juric (the Association of
Independents Trade unions of Croatia) and Boris Kunst (the
Association of Workers' Trade Unions of Croatia).
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