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‘’The media are the heart of UBU ‘’Nezavisnost’’, as stated at the Meeting of the Program Committee for informing of UBU ‘’Nezavisnost’’

‘’DOUBLE ZERO’’ FOR INFORMING




Belgrade, March 19 2008
After the UBU ‘’Nezavisnost’’ Leading Committee (L.C.) presented the realized costs for informing and trade union promotion with ‘’0’’ Dinars in the 2007 Work Report, at its last Session, and in the UBU Financial Scheme for 2008 it projected the expenses for these purposes amounting to ‘’0’’ Dinars as well – a very tumultuous Session of the Program Committee for informing of UBU ‘’Nezavisnost’’ was held. After this ‘’informing reprimand’’ by the UBU Leading Committee, as it was appraised at this meeting, a full composition of the Program Committee, composed of representatives of all Branch Unions, submitted their resignation, which was a moral act. Resignations were submitted due to non-providing minimum material, technical and financial conditions, as well as a crude blunder of the UBU Leading Committee that the Informing Committee carried out successfully and professionally three fundamental strategic jobs concerning the information system, last year: ‘’Brand Book’’, project of UBU web site and specific-purpose TV broadcast on the RTS. It was requested from the UBU L.C. to explain the assigned ‘’zeros’’, and an apology, responsibility and providing working conditions were requested too. ‘’Forgive them God, because they don’t know what they are doing’’, are only some of the bitter comments of individual members of the Informing Committee.

Prof. D. Zoran Stoiljkovic, UBU ‘’Nezavisnost’’ Vice-President, asked all those present to be patient and not to submit a collective resignation within the Program Committee for Informing, which is, in his opinion, an elitist and one of the best Committees that UBU ‘’Nezavisnost’’ has. He thinks that a lot of moot points shall be resolved at the next session of the UBU L.C. and that the required funds for informing function and trade union promotion have to be provided.

Also, he thinks that the Program Committee for Informing and Committee for Cooperation with Political Parties would make an invaluable joint contribution to the campaign associated with the status and survival of democratic trade unions in Serbia in the time in which we perform our activities, as well as in the near future.
- ‘’Rescinding the Program Committee for Informing’’ would really have great adverse consequences on the entire UBU’’, said Stoiljkovic.

Mr. Jovan Stojkovic, M. Sc., MWBU representative, noted with resignation that metal workers trade unions invested so much funds, energy and staff in informing and unionist promotion and UBU was so reserved and conservative regarding this issue. He thinks that, as all those present, regardless of assigned ‘’zeros’’, that they don’t feel like a ‘’0’’, but only boundlessly unhappy. If happiness, expressed by mathematics formula, is a fraction, wherein a dividend means ‘’obtained’’ and divisor ‘’desired’’, then in this case, when we divide the given ‘’0’’ with any natural number, we get only minus infinity (bitterness).

Bearing in mind that almost every UBU Meeting begins with a question: ‘’Why aren’t we in the media?’’, this story has a tragicomic plot, said Stojkovic at the end of his speech.

 
     
 
 
 
 
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