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AD ’’LIVNICA’’ KIKINDA, ’’CIMOS’’ GROUP, HOST OF INTERNATIONAL METAL WORKERS’ FEDERATION AND MWBU ’’NEZAVISNOST’’

PARTNERSHIP – A BASE FOR FUTURE COOPERATION





Kikinda, May 9, 2007
The interceding of MWBU ’’Nezavisnost’’ to conduct a social dialogue with employers was confirmed by the visit of the IMF to Kikinda Foundry. Colleague Anne Marie Mureau encouraged the partners, namely, the Management of Kikinda Foundry and MWBU ’’Nezavisnost’’ that they should develop the culture of dialogue and arguments and in the interest of a more stable economic situation of the Foundry, as well as better working conditions and higher employee earnings.

Kikinda Foundry, as a member of ’’CIMOS’’ Group, is obliged to observe all the provisions of the Frame Agreement, signed between the IMF and large multinational companies to which ’’Reno’’ and ’’CITROEN’’ Group belong. As a component supplier of these two enterprises, Kikinda Foundry is obliged to observe all the provisions of the Agreement. The non-observance of the Agreement may adversely affect business relations and agreements, and the ultimate result will be termination of the Agreement. The MWBU ’’Nezavisnost’’ warned Kikinda Foundry several times that it could, as a member of the IMF, initiate a procedure for re-examining the observance of International Frame Agreements in the part referring to trade union’s and workers’ rights to free organizing, as well as the re-examining of job safety conditions in the Foundry.

The Foundry Management, headed by director Mirko Latinovic, noted that previous relations between ’’Nezavisnost’’ Union and the Foundry Management were not on required level, as well as that we had to create a framework of cooperation, through specific actions, based on laws and good will.

-’’It is necessary to enable the ’’Nezavisnost’’ Union to have the possibility, as a social partner, to exercise its rights and protect the interests of its members in the Foundry in compliance with the laws. The non-observance of the C.A. and many solutions that the Foundry has, being debatable relative to current regulations, tell us that trade unions have a lot of work to do, if they are interested in that and skilled to deal with those issues’’, stressed Dragan Matic, president of MWBU ’’Nezavisnost’’.

The talks that lasted several hours ended with a conclusion that the partnership with ’’Nezavisnost’’ Union was supported by the director Latinovic and ’’Nezavisnost’’ Union would formulate its positions and support in writing. This is an important ’’step forward’’ for ’’Nezavisnost’’ Union in developing partner relations with Kikinda Foundry and its director Mirko Latinovic.

 
     
 
 
 
 
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