ZAGREB, Dec 17 (Hina) - Croatian Deputy Premier Ljerka Mintas Hodak confirmed on Monday night's Croatian Television that the last attempt to reconcile with six public services' unions who had announced to stage a strike for Monday,
had failed. She said that the unions had not accepted the government's proposal about a rise in salaries for 1997, but had even raised their request for a raise in salaries by 15 percent from January 1 1997. This, she said, they had not insisted on during negotiations in the government.
ZAGREB, Dec 17 (Hina) - Croatian Deputy Premier Ljerka Mintas Hodak
confirmed on Monday night's Croatian Television that the last
attempt to reconcile with six public services' unions who had
announced to stage a strike for Monday, had failed.
She said that the unions had not accepted the government's
proposal about a rise in salaries for 1997, but had even raised
their request for a raise in salaries by 15 percent from January 1
1997. This, she said, they had not insisted on during negotiations
in the government. #L#
Hodak stressed that a 10 percent rise in salaries would be
applied from 1 July and a three percent rise to 1 October for
government services' employees, employees in culture and flight
controllers, while other public employees would not get the raise.
"Negotiating with the unions, the government even foresaw the
additional sources needed for special raises of 10 and 3 percent,
to the detriment of some developmental projects and items in the
State Budget for 1997 concerning social programmes, just so that
the government could show it was serious.
I think this best shows how seriously the government has taken
negotiations with the unions," Mintas-Hodak said.
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