Trade unions threaten protests
Serbian trade unions have threatened protests should the government go ahead with plans to suspend application of the extended General Collective Agreement.
Wednesday, 24.12.2008.
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Serbian trade unions have threatened protests should the government go ahead with plans to suspend application of the extended General Collective Agreement. Police, health and justice unions protested in front of government HQ today, while metal worker unions have announced a protest this afternoon in Nikola Pasic Square, from where they will walk to parliament to meet with Speaker Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic. Trade unions threaten protests After the meeting, they too will head to government HQ. The Serbian Alliance of Independent Unions will hold a protest in Krusevac today as well. Alliance President Ljubisav Orbovic told a press conference that the protests would continue until the government honored what it had signed and began implementing the expanded agreement, which includes hot meals and annual leave. He said that besides protests, the union would also hold warning and general strikes, and that the dynamics of the action would depend on an agreement with the remaining unions, primarily the Independence Union, which has also signed the collective agreement in question. Orbovic reiterated that the Alliance had submitted amendments to the draft budget that would allow funds to be allocated for implementing the collective agreement. The amendments are supported by New Serbia and PUPS officials.
Trade unions threaten protests
After the meeting, they too will head to government HQ.The Serbian Alliance of Independent Unions will hold a protest in Kruševac today as well.
Alliance President Ljubisav Orbović told a press conference that the protests would continue until the government honored what it had signed and began implementing the expanded agreement, which includes hot meals and annual leave.
He said that besides protests, the union would also hold warning and general strikes, and that the dynamics of the action would depend on an agreement with the remaining unions, primarily the Independence Union, which has also signed the collective agreement in question.
Orbović reiterated that the Alliance had submitted amendments to the draft budget that would allow funds to be allocated for implementing the collective agreement. The amendments are supported by New Serbia and PUPS officials.
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