ZAGREB, June 25 (Hina) - The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Croatia (SSSH) demands that parliamentary elections be held in late September, or early October at the latest. Informing reporters in Zagreb on Friday about the
latest conclusions of a SSSH Council session, SSSH president Davor Juric said trade unions demand that elections be held in the immediate future because they have no trust in the either the current government or parliament. Croatia is in an utter political, economic, social, and above all moral crisis, Juric said, mentioning unemployment, illiquidity, unpaid salaries, and a general lack of prospects. The government's policy does not open new jobs but produces unemployment, productivity and manufacturing are on the decrease, 52,000 industry workers receive irregularly paid salaries, while the standard of living is perpetually dropping, Juric said. According to SSSH estimates, based on a United Nati
ZAGREB, June 25 (Hina) - The Federation of Independent Trade Unions
of Croatia (SSSH) demands that parliamentary elections be held in
late September, or early October at the latest.
Informing reporters in Zagreb on Friday about the latest
conclusions of a SSSH Council session, SSSH president Davor Juric
said trade unions demand that elections be held in the immediate
future because they have no trust in the either the current
government or parliament.
Croatia is in an utter political, economic, social, and above all
moral crisis, Juric said, mentioning unemployment, illiquidity,
unpaid salaries, and a general lack of prospects.
The government's policy does not open new jobs but produces
unemployment, productivity and manufacturing are on the decrease,
52,000 industry workers receive irregularly paid salaries, while
the standard of living is perpetually dropping, Juric said.
According to SSSH estimates, based on a United Nations methodology
according to which each citizen needs four dollars a day, Croatia
has 1.8 million poor people.
Juric said the trade unions want to be received by the President to
point out how difficult the economic and social situation is.
The SSSH will take an active part in the next elections by inducing
its members to vote en masse and to elect parties inclined towards
unions and the labour force, Juric said, adding it is clear the SSSH
will steer its members to the present opposition.
Commenting on President Franjo Tudjman's claim that problems in
economy are minor when compared to Croatia's overall
accomplishments, Juric said the establishment and defence of the
homeland should not be mixed with its post-war development which,
he emphasised, backfired entirely.
The SSSH Council today reached a decision by which the unions'
federation plans to change its tactics of pressuring the
government, Juric said but gave no details.
The "SSSH insists on the passing of the Law on Public of Gathering,
for whose second reading the six-month-deadline envisaged by the
law has expired," he concluded.
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