"BELJE" COMPANY EMPLOYEES WILL NOT WORK TILL THEY GET PAID

ZAGREB, Dec 30 (Hina) - Unless salaries for August, September and October are paid by January 4, workers of the agricultural processing plant "Belje" in eastern Croatia will not be working as the new year begins, but will "wait for wages at their work stations in protest," president of the Agriculture Union, Josip Pavic, told reporters Thursday. Pavic and about a dozen other Belje union commissioners distributed flyers in front of the Government building with union requests Thursday morning. Pavic stressed that unless nothing is solved at a supervision committee, scheduled for January 4, workers will continue protesting until their requests are met. Besides salaries, the workers are requesting that the Government immediately implements its conclusions and decisions of May 6 when it adopted measures for the rehabilitation of Belje, which have not been realised to this day. The Croatian Privatisation Fund is requested to withdraw immediately its representatives at the Belje supervisory board because the board had not performed its function since the summer. Belje's management board chairman Drago Tadic on Wednesday pledged the payment of salaries for November would begin on December 30, followed by salaries for September (hina) lml mm