ZAGREB, Dec 16 (Hina) - Four trade unions of workers employed with the "Tisak" company, who went on a two-hour warning strike on Thursday afternoon, announced their general strike for 14:00 hours next Wednesday (December 22), which
will last until the Croatian Government does not confirm, in a written form, that it fully accepts a programme of the rehabilitation of this firm. Today's two-hour warning strike is the last call on the Government to finally put on its agenda the problem of "Tisak", as nothing of its decisions, made during April's strike of Tisak workers, has been carried out so far," said the leader of one of the four unions, Zdravko Stefekov. In the meantime this company was made even poorer by the conduct of banks-owners that are not capable of managing "Tisak", Stefekov added. The leader of the printmakers' union, Stjepan Kolaric, asserted "it is in somebody's interest that "Tisak"
ZAGREB, Dec 16 (Hina) - Four trade unions of workers employed with
the "Tisak" company, who went on a two-hour warning strike on
Thursday afternoon, announced their general strike for 14:00 hours
next Wednesday (December 22), which will last until the Croatian
Government does not confirm, in a written form, that it fully
accepts a programme of the rehabilitation of this firm.
Today's two-hour warning strike is the last call on the Government
to finally put on its agenda the problem of "Tisak", as nothing of
its decisions, made during April's strike of Tisak workers, has
been carried out so far," said the leader of one of the four unions,
Zdravko Stefekov.
In the meantime this company was made even poorer by the conduct of
banks-owners that are not capable of managing "Tisak", Stefekov
added.
The leader of the printmakers' union, Stjepan Kolaric, asserted "it
is in somebody's interest that "Tisak" should go into bankruptcy,
as the company's giro account is almost incessantly blocked, and it
is, for instance, being blocked by the Privredna Bank Zagreb, which
holds 43 percent of Tisak's shares."
The debt of "Tisak" totals 600 million kuna (150 million German
marks) and is three times higher that the capital base of the
company. That's why, creditors are not likely to be able to have
their debts settled, Kolaric assessed. Besides, "Tisak" claims
over 100 million German marks, but mostly from firms that have gone
into bankruptcy (of those companies that owe money to "Tisak", 95
percent has gone bankrupt or filed for it), the union's leader
added.
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