CRO PRIME MINISTER SUPPORTS COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS

ZAGREB, March 15 (Hina) - Croatian Prime Minister, Zlatko Matesa, on Friday forwarded a letter to the directors of the news agency Hina, Croatian Radio Television, and newsparers Vjesnik, Vecernji List and Glas Slavonije. In the letter, Matesa stressed the necessity of signing collective agreements. "It is not advisable to offer individual work contracts to employees before collective agreements are signed," Matesa warned, adding that "the situation in the media is one of the scales for gauging the degree of democracy in the country. We cannot have a high degree of democracy without collective agreements," Matesa said in the letter. (hina) lm mm 151740 MET mar 96