ZAGREB MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES ZAGREB, March 13 (Hina) - The Zagreb city government offered a seven-percent pay rise in negotiations on Saturday with representatives of 11 municipal services, Deputy Mayor Stipe Tojcic of the Croatian
People's Party (HNS) told reporters.
ZAGREB, March 13 (Hina) - The Zagreb city government offered a
seven-percent pay rise in negotiations on Saturday with
representatives of 11 municipal services, Deputy Mayor Stipe Tojcic of
the Croatian People's Party (HNS) told reporters.#L#
Tojcic accused the Zagreb branch of the Social Democratic Party (SDP)
of manipulation, saying that while he led the negotiation team, Deputy
Mayor Milan Bandic of the SDP and the new head of the negotiating
team, Ladislav Prezigalo, insisted that wages could be increased by
not more than three per cent.
"If a seven-percent rise can be ensured through rationalisation of the
business operations of municipal firms, why the SDP has not stated so
in negotiations over the last two months and there would have been no
strike," Tojcic said.
Following two warning strikes this week, the trade unions of 11
municipal services have announced a general strike for Monday, seeking
a 17-percent pay rise.
Representatives of three out of four trade unions representing the
municipal transport company ZET walked out of the negotiations, and
the reason for this was not immediately clear.
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