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ZAGREB, Sept 8 (Hina) - Three Croatian Post and Telecommunications
(HPT) unions announced an all-day strike for October 13, claiming
the HPT's management was hampering negotiations regarding a new
collective agreement for post and telecommunications employees.
Even though the strike announcement was signed on September 2 by the
presidents of all four unions, the Association of HPT Unions
representative said at a joint press conference held in Zagreb on
Tuesday that his union would not strike.
The main issue of conflict between unions and management is the
unions' demand for an increase in wages.
The unions are not asking for an increase in the gross amount of
wages for HPT employees which the Government made impossible with
its ruling regarding salaries in public companies, but rather they
are seeking a redistribution of incentive payments to be added to
employees' wages, said Jadranka Dumbovic, president of the
Croatian Union for Post and Telecommunications.
This would mean the lowest net wage in the HPT would increase by
about US$16 and postal workers would be guaranteed maintaining
their current level of wages, even after the division of the HPT
into separate postal and telecommunications companies.
The unions foresee that postal employees will be destined to become
dependent on the state budget and the Government will more than
likely do away with stimulus pays and decrease some incentives.
This would mean that their social standing would need to be ensured
by a collective agreement, and only then could negotiations begin
regarding specific collective agreements for postal and
telecommunication employees.
(Hina) sp jn /mbr
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