Strikers temporarily lift railway blockade
Zastava Electro and Prvi Maj employees from Rača and Lapovo have agreed to suspend their blockade of the Belgrade-Niš railway line for 48 hours.
Wednesday, 24.06.2009.
13:09
Zastava Electro and Prvi Maj employees from Raca and Lapovo have agreed to suspend their blockade of the Belgrade-Nis railway line for 48 hours. After receiving pledges from Labor Minister Rasim Ljajic that the time would be used to assess the situation in the companies, and to find a means of ensuring reimbursement of unpaid wages, the strikers agreed to lift their blockade of the railway line for two days. Strikers temporarily lift railway blockade If no solution is reached in the meantime, the strikers have warned that they will step up their protest. Ljajic was able to persuade the strikers, who have been blocking the main Beograd-Nis line for two days, to unblock the line for international traffic. The minister said that both employers acknowledged the workers’s demands, but that it needed to be seen “which modality will be applied.” “The states’ options are limited, as we’re talking about privatized companies, and the state can only mediate. What matters most is to stop a radicalization of the strike,” he stressed. Ljajic said that the police and judiciary would set about checking whether the privatization contracts for these two companies had been carried out in accordance with the law. The minister said that it was vital that the line should begin working again as Serbian Railways were suffering “huge losses,“ as trains on international lines were having to be diverted. The strikers agreed to the temporary lifting of the blockade with a great deal of reserve, unconvinced that their demands will be met in the next two days. Strike leaders Novica Markovic and Tomislav Veljkovic believe that the decision was a gesture of good will for the problem to be addressed, warning, however, that the protest will be radicalized if no solution is found. “The minister promised us that the state authorities would analyze all the problems that have arisen in the two companies since privatization, which have led to late payment of wages and non-payment of pension contributions,“ said Markovic. Besides wanting their wages to be reimbursed and their pension contributions paid in, the strikers are also calling for the companies to be renationalized. Rasim Delic (FoNet, archive)
Strikers temporarily lift railway blockade
If no solution is reached in the meantime, the strikers have warned that they will step up their protest.Ljajić was able to persuade the strikers, who have been blocking the main Beograd-Niš line for two days, to unblock the line for international traffic.
The minister said that both employers acknowledged the workers’s demands, but that it needed to be seen “which modality will be applied.”
“The states’ options are limited, as we’re talking about privatized companies, and the state can only mediate. What matters most is to stop a radicalization of the strike,” he stressed.
Ljajić said that the police and judiciary would set about checking whether the privatization contracts for these two companies had been carried out in accordance with the law.
The minister said that it was vital that the line should begin working again as Serbian Railways were suffering “huge losses,“ as trains on international lines were having to be diverted.
The strikers agreed to the temporary lifting of the blockade with a great deal of reserve, unconvinced that their demands will be met in the next two days.
Strike leaders Novica Marković and Tomislav Veljković believe that the decision was a gesture of good will for the problem to be addressed, warning, however, that the protest will be radicalized if no solution is found.
“The minister promised us that the state authorities would analyze all the problems that have arisen in the two companies since privatization, which have led to late payment of wages and non-payment of pension contributions,“ said Marković.
Besides wanting their wages to be reimbursed and their pension contributions paid in, the strikers are also calling for the companies to be renationalized.
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