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AFTER NINE MONTHS OF UNSUCCESSFUL ENDEAVORS TO SIGN A COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT

STRIKE IN ’’INTERLEMIND’’ – LESKOVAC




Leskovac, August 29, 2007
After almost nine months of unsuccessful efforts to sign a C.A., determine the labor cost and settle relations within the company, both trade unions of ’’Interlemind’’ Leskovac were compelled to protect employees rights by organizing a strike. The ’’Nezavisnost’’ Union and Autonomous Trade Union of ’’Interlemind’’ Leskovac organized employees in compliance with the Law on Strike and went into strike on August 16, 2007. The ’’Peconi’’ syndrome continues in Serbia, with the difference that the owner and employer of ’’Interlemind’’ isn’t one of the domestic ’’holy cows’’ of Serbian privatization, but a Bulgarian ’’holy cow’’, namely, Macedonian privatization.

Instead of negotiating with strikers, to which he is obligated by the law, and finding a solution for the problem that arose, the employer began to interprete whether the strike has been organized in the way provided by the law. The employer went so far that he sent a letter to the Strikers Committee informing it that he wasn’t familiar with the broader context and legislator’s intentions! One must admit that this is something ’’new’’in employer’s conduct! It is provided by the Law on Strike who is competent for interpretation and who is responsible for law enforcement, i.e. Labor Inspection of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy.

Due to such employer’s attitude, the Strikers Committee requested the inspection’s supervision over organizing and carrying out the strike by two trade unions of ’’Interlemind’’. Proceeding on the request of August 20, 2007, two inspectors of the Labor Inspection came to ’’Interlemind’’ in order to establish whether the strike was organized and carried out in the way provided by the law. While the Strikers Committee presented a complete documentation for inspection, as from the strike announcement until now, the employer hasn’t filed any documents at inspectors request. Moreover, he notified the inspectors he would be absent from the company for three days and that no one else except himself had the right to talk to inspectors! But then his subordinate directors and managers could mistreat enmployees in strike, issue a decision on work obligation to strikers, etc.

Referring to the mentioned ’’holy cows’’ that obey neither global nor God’s laws, they demand from all the others to strictly observe the laws and even comprehend a ’’broader’’law context. It is certain that the employer’s position, understood in this way, has no impact on strikers being decisive to exercise their rights fully, based on their work.

 
     
 
 
 
 
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