ZAGREB, Aug 10 (Hina) - Three Interior Ministry unions have recommended to Minister Sime Lucin and police head Ranko Ostojic to "resign from their positions if they have any conscience," Dubravko Jagic said on behalf of the unions in
Zagreb on Friday. Representatives of the police union, the independent police union, and the union of Interior Ministry employees no longer wish to talk to Lucin and Ostojic but to be received by Prime Minister Ivica Racan or somebody else from his cabinet as soon as possible. The three unions are giving the government another opportunity for talks from which they expect answers to many questions. In the contrary, they are ready for "the last harsh step," according to Mladen Magdic, one of the leaders. The unions are disgruntled with the recent placement of some 3,100 surplus police at the government's disposal. The three unions will write a joint letter to the internation
ZAGREB, Aug 10 (Hina) - Three Interior Ministry unions have
recommended to Minister Sime Lucin and police head Ranko Ostojic to
"resign from their positions if they have any conscience," Dubravko
Jagic said on behalf of the unions in Zagreb on Friday.
Representatives of the police union, the independent police union,
and the union of Interior Ministry employees no longer wish to talk
to Lucin and Ostojic but to be received by Prime Minister Ivica
Racan or somebody else from his cabinet as soon as possible.
The three unions are giving the government another opportunity for
talks from which they expect answers to many questions. In the
contrary, they are ready for "the last harsh step," according to
Mladen Magdic, one of the leaders.
The unions are disgruntled with the recent placement of some 3,100
surplus police at the government's disposal.
The three unions will write a joint letter to the international
human rights tribunal, as well as all union organisations and
relevant institutions around the world to "tell them the truth
about the police layoffs in Croatia," another union leader, Zdravko
Loncar, said.
The unions strongly object to Minister Lucin's interview with
Jutarnji List daily of Friday, particularly his claim that
"unionists lie" and police deserve better union leaders.
They deem Lucin's claim that the Interior Ministry "is not a place
for welfare cases" the most ruthless and harshest statement uttered
by a Croatian minister.
The unions consider the government's care-providing programme for
surplus police "merciless and disgraceful."
Even though members of the press insisted on hearing the unions'
steps in case the meeting with the Racan cabinet fell through, the
leaders did not want to say if it would be a large-scale public
protest or strike.
"Fore the time being we cannot give a precise answer, but we shall
certainly exert all of our constitutional rights," they said.
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