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Croatian unionists hold virtual protest on May 1

Author: Marija Šestan;Lana Lončarić

ZAGREB, May 1 (Hina) - The SSSH union federation on Friday held the first online protest in Croatia under the slogan "Thanks to workers, but rights first", underscoring the 12 requests sent to the government, the parliament, the Croatian Employers' Association and the Croatian Chamber of Commerce.

During the virtual protest, the SSSH leader Mladen Novosel underscored that SSSH had reacted timely when they had insisted on making public a list of employers granted subsidies under the government aid scheme, and the list was published two days ago.

In their 12 requests, the unionists demand transparency and that subsidies designed to save jobs be monitored, and that employers beneficiaries of the grants keep their workers for an additional three months.

They reject proposals for pay cuts and call for a better organisation of work through the implementation of key reforms in the public and private sector.

They call for the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, which would extend  labour and social rights to workers in non-standard forms of employment, such as online work.

Minimum wage of HRK 4,000, progressive taxation

They call for increasing the minimum wage to the net amount of HRK 4,000, with the aim of reducing the gap between the highest and the lowest wages. They propose that the rich should pay higher taxes and that workers should pay lower taxes,by means of progressive income tax and taxes on property and uninvested profits.

They demand that the public health system be strengthened, whereby public health care should be separated from private health care, and the commercialisation of service and the privatisation of primary health care should be stopped.

They demand that the principle of fairness urgently be introduced into the pension system and that pensions earned through work be significantly increased.

They call for an increase in the quality and availability of education, introducing "Entrepreneurship and the World of Work" into the curriculum and education for active citizenship.

Unionists also propose that all digital services provided by public administration during the crisis be available permanently and that the number of cities and municipalities be reduced.

Public investment should be significantly increased, and private investments should be encourages with the aim of building an industry that will be low-carbon, circular, digital and will feature renewable energy sources.

They also call for preserving and encouraging domestic production, especially agricultural, in order to make Croatia self-sufficient when it comes to food production.

The virtual protest rally was held  via the Zoom application from 11 to 12 hours on the international Workers' Day, observed on 1 May.

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