ZAGREB, April 12 (Hina) - The Union of Croatian Post and Telecommunications (HPT) Workers stopped working in all post offices for half an hour at noon on Thursday. The stoppage, the third one in the past month and a half, was caused
by another robbery of a post van. The union demands that the government replace the current HP management board because it was unable to protect post offices. Post deliverers joined the clerks in today's stoppage. The HP management is responsible for the latest attack on the lives of postal workers, the union says, adding the management was not doing anything to protect them. Apart from the replacement of the current management, the union demands that armed guards escort deliverers and safeguard post offices, that video surveillance and bullet-proof windows be installed in post offices and that a regulation defining the distance at which clients and postal cl
ZAGREB, April 12 (Hina) - The Union of Croatian Post and
Telecommunications (HPT) Workers stopped working in all post
offices for half an hour at noon on Thursday. The stoppage, the
third one in the past month and a half, was caused by another robbery
of a post van.
The union demands that the government replace the current HP
management board because it was unable to protect post offices.
Post deliverers joined the clerks in today's stoppage.
The HP management is responsible for the latest attack on the lives
of postal workers, the union says, adding the management was not
doing anything to protect them.
Apart from the replacement of the current management, the union
demands that armed guards escort deliverers and safeguard post
offices, that video surveillance and bullet-proof windows be
installed in post offices and that a regulation defining the
distance at which clients and postal clerks may communicate be
introduced.
The latest robbery of a HP van happened near Virovitica on Tuesday
morning. No one was hurt in the robbery.
On the same day three years ago, a Zagreb postman was robbed and
killed while on duty.
Three postal workers have been killed and another 100 postal
workers and clients have been injured or feel the consequences of
attacks on post offices, postmen and post van drivers.
Over the past five years, there were 200 robberies of post offices.
This year alone, 18 post offices and four post vans were robbed.
(hina) rml