ZAGREB, Nov 26 (Hina) - Workers in many companies in the Croatian metal manufacturing sector, went on a 15-minute strike at noon on Tuesday to show solidarity with employees of the Sisak Ironworks, the Metal Workers' Union (SMH)
reported.
ZAGREB, Nov 26 (Hina) - Workers in many companies in the Croatian
metal manufacturing sector, went on a 15-minute strike at noon on
Tuesday to show solidarity with employees of the Sisak Ironworks,
the Metal Workers' Union (SMH) reported. #L#
Workers in the "Uljanik" shipyard, a few big companies such as
"Djuro Djakovic", "Koncar" and "Dalekovod" and many smaller firms,
discontinued their work for some 15 minutes at noon also in protest
over the recent police intervention during a Sisak workers'
protest.
The aim of this industrial action is to warn the government about
the dissatisfying tempo and manner of the restructuring of state-
run companies, the union's leader, Ivo Marjanovic, told Hina.
The slowness of commercial courts in bankruptcy processes does not
help companies to be restructured and they usually go into
liquidation, Marjanovic said.
According to some figures, over 30,000 jobs in the metal
manufacturing sectors have uncertain destiny. About 4,000 metal
workers are in companies, which are undergoing the bankruptcy
procedure, and 6,400 are employed in companies where the payment of
salaries is overdue from one to ten months.
At noon today, Sisak Ironworks employees resumed their protest
rally, which they discontinued last Thursday after they received
two late salaries.
The protesters insist on the payment of the third overdue wage and
ask the government to ensure the funding for the minimum wages to
some 2,000 employees in Sisak, and the plant in nearby Caprag, until
a new strategic partner enters the company.
(hina) ms