ZAGREB, Oct 9 (Hina) - The Independent Croatian Workers' Unions (NHS) on Monday urged state authorities to "wake up and start serving the people by resolving economic and social problems." NHS president Kresimir Sever told reporters
that citizens were tired of scandals while no one was trying to solve the difficult economic and social situation in Croatia. The authorities are concerned with generals, crime, skirmishes among the ruling six-party coalition and power jockeying between the premier and the president of the state, and the social and economic situation in the country is chaotic - poverty is on the increase, as is unemployment, bankruptcy proceedings are being declared etc, said Sever. The time when Croatia was the best international news has been consumed because that status now is being taken by Yugoslavia, Sever said. The NHS president warned about more than 350,000 unemployed pe
INDEPENDENT WORKERS' UNION URGE RESOLUTION OF SOCIAL, ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
ZAGREB, Oct 9 (Hina) - The Independent Croatian Workers' Unions
(NHS) on Monday urged state authorities to "wake up and start
serving the people by resolving economic and social problems."
NHS president Kresimir Sever told reporters that citizens were
tired of scandals while no one was trying to solve the difficult
economic and social situation in Croatia. The authorities are
concerned with generals, crime, skirmishes among the ruling six-
party coalition and power jockeying between the premier and the
president of the state, and the social and economic situation in the
country is chaotic - poverty is on the increase, as is unemployment,
bankruptcy proceedings are being declared etc, said Sever.
The time when Croatia was the best international news has been
consumed because that status now is being taken by Yugoslavia,
Sever said.
The NHS president warned about more than 350,000 unemployed persons
and the unemployment rate of more than 21 percent. Bankruptcy
proceedings have been announced for 70 firms, he said adding a major
reduction of work force in the military and police was planned.
The NHS, as the second biggest union federation with more than
72,000 members, over the past three months urged the government and
the president of the state on several occasions to turn to economic
and social problems but it has not received any answer yet, Sever
said.
(hina) rml