One of the demands is a 19-percent increase in pensions for all recipients who have gone into retirement since 1 January 1999.
SUH is proposing a change to the family pension models and a minimum pension of at least 50% of the gross minimum wage. It is also pushing for a new pension indexation model.
Addressing a news conference , SUH leader Jasna Petrovic said that over half of the pensioners received pensions lower than the poverty threshold of HRK 2,085.
"It is sad to see that in terms of the pension to wage ratio, we fare worst among countries in the area of the former Yugoslavia, Hungary and Italy, since the average pension in Croatia accounts for 38% of the average monthly salary," Petrovic said. This ratio is 43.5% in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 47% in Kosovo, 50% in Serbia, 56% in Montenegro, 60% in Slovenia and 62% in Macedonia, Petrovic said.
SUH deputy leader Milan Tomicic said that 100,000 pensioners received pensions of below 500 kuna, and 57% of pensioners received incomes lower than the average pension of HRK 2,314.
Protest rallies will take place in Zagreb, Pula, Zadar, Split,, Slavonski Brod and Osijek.
There are over 1.2 million pensioners in Croatia whose population is about 4.2 million.
(EUR 1= HRK 7.5)