Government, protesters reach agreement, roadblock removed

The government of Serbia and a delegation of Vranje-based Yumco textile factory workers have reached an agreement, Tanjug reported.

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Friday, 14.02.2014.

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Government, protesters reach agreement, roadblock removed

Yumco workers have been on a general strike for one month, and on Wednesday morning they blocked the Belgrade-Skopje highway near Vranje.

The highway was cleared late on Thursday, after the acting Minister of Economy Igor Mirović promised that Prime Minister Ivica Dačić will confer with a Yumco delegation on solving operational problems of the company that is undergoing restructuring, but the strike continued on factory premises.

In the Thursday's meeting with the Yumco delegation, Dačić and Mirović pledged that the Serbian government will help the company and that the employees will receive their health insurance and eight outstanding monthly salaries.

Dačić also suggested business arrangements with the police and the army in order to start the production at Yumco, said Snezana Veličković, main representative of the Association of Free and Independent Trade Unions (ASNS) at the company.

It was also agreed to form a new supervising committee to inspect Yumco business records over the past nine years and determine potential responsibility of the management for poor business results, she noted.

Representatives of the Yumco workers "promised that for the time being there would be no new highway blockades, and added that the workers will decide if the strike will continue after they are informed about the agreements reached with the government," Tanjug reported.

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