Deal signed, strike over at TENT

The management and the union of power plant Nikola Tesla (TENT) in Obrenovac struck a deal with the government and ended their strike. The agreement on the employees' demands on Tuesday afternoon, putting an end to the strike at the biggest thermoelectric plant in Serbia, president of the strike committee Milovan Despotovic told Tanjug. Deal signed, strike over at TENT The strike was suspended after an 8.5 percent salary increase for TENT employees was agreed on, based on working in shifts and adjusting the salaries to inflation, he said. Despotovic said that the raise will start with the January salary and that it will be funded from the company's profits. The warning strike in TENT started on Monday, January 11, with the workers blocking for two and a half hours coal shipments to the plant which generates half of Serbia's power. The TENT workers went on strike because they were dissatisfied with the agreement between the union of the state power company EPS and the government. Their demands included a salary increase in line with the rise in the cost of living, payment of meal and holiday allowances, as well as the enforcement of all provisions of the Labor Law. TENT confirmed in a statement that the representatives of the Ministry of Mining and Energy, EPS and TENT management, in negotiations with the TENT union, “found a solution acceptable to both parties, thus creating the conditions to end the strike.” “In today's negotiations, a compromise solution was found, that satisfied the demands of the TENT union, but also preserved the macroeconomic stability of the country, as well as the business standing of EPS and TENT,” reads the statement of the thermoelectric plant.

Deal signed, strike over at TENT

The strike was suspended after an 8.5 percent salary increase for TENT employees was agreed on, based on working in shifts and adjusting the salaries to inflation, he said.

Despotović said that the raise will start with the January salary and that it will be funded from the company's profits.

The warning strike in TENT started on Monday, January 11, with the workers blocking for two and a half hours coal shipments to the plant which generates half of Serbia's power.

The TENT workers went on strike because they were dissatisfied with the agreement between the union of the state power company EPS and the government.

Their demands included a salary increase in line with the rise in the cost of living, payment of meal and holiday allowances, as well as the enforcement of all provisions of the Labor Law.

TENT confirmed in a statement that the representatives of the Ministry of Mining and Energy, EPS and TENT management, in negotiations with the TENT union, “found a solution acceptable to both parties, thus creating the conditions to end the strike.”

“In today's negotiations, a compromise solution was found, that satisfied the demands of the TENT union, but also preserved the macroeconomic stability of the country, as well as the business standing of EPS and TENT,” reads the statement of the thermoelectric plant.