ZAGREB, Aug 8 (Hina) - A co-ordinating body of three trade unions active in the Croatian Interior Ministry on Wednesday requested an urgent meeting with Minister Sime Lucin and the police chief superintendent Ranko Ostojic. If they do
not receive any response within coming 24 hours, the unions will insist on the resignation of Lucin and Ostojic, whom the unionists accuse of spreading misinformation about the role and activities of the unions in the interior ministry. The deadline expires at 11.00 am Thursday when a striking committee should decide on further steps, unionists said on Wednesday afternoon. The police union, the civil servants union and the independent union also insist on the immediate assessment whether the ministry's programme for the resolution of problems of surplus workers, a rule book on the internal organisation of the ministry and a new plan for job classification are in
ZAGREB, Aug 8 (Hina) - A co-ordinating body of three trade unions
active in the Croatian Interior Ministry on Wednesday requested an
urgent meeting with Minister Sime Lucin and the police chief
superintendent Ranko Ostojic.
If they do not receive any response within coming 24 hours, the
unions will insist on the resignation of Lucin and Ostojic, whom the
unionists accuse of spreading misinformation about the role and
activities of the unions in the interior ministry. The deadline
expires at 11.00 am Thursday when a striking committee should
decide on further steps, unionists said on Wednesday afternoon.
The police union, the civil servants union and the independent
union also insist on the immediate assessment whether the
ministry's programme for the resolution of problems of surplus
workers, a rule book on the internal organisation of the ministry
and a new plan for job classification are in compliance with law.
The unions maintain that the legal procedure has not been respected
as the said documents have not been forwarded to the unions so that
they could take a position on the matter.
The police union pressed charges against Minister Lucin, chief
superintendent Ostojic and Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan,
accusing them of violating the labour act and the collective
agreement for employees. The chargers were filed with the state
prosecutor's office in Zagreb.
The leaders of the three unions called on dissatisfied police
officers who received papers reading that they were made available
to the government not to take further actions on their own as the
unions would take all necessary steps in line with law.
The police union's president, Dubravko Jagic, said the protest
rallies of outraged police officers were spontaneous.
He also dismissed Ostojic's assessment about the union's bad work
as incorrect.
(hina) ms