Last night, at a meeting with the new Board of Directors of the company, representatives of the "Plantaž" union received guarantees that there will be changes in management, but most likely only in September, and that until then the payment of wages and other employee benefits will be a priority, as well as that the new systematization will and the collective agreement to be made in agreement with the union, "Vijesti" learns.
In return, the board of directors requests that any strike be suspended, because now at the time of peach harvest, and soon grapes, it would cause great damage to the company and threaten its income and thus the payment of wages to the workers.
The union should decide in the next days whether to accept this offer, while today it will make a statement because the meeting ended late last night. According to unofficial information from "Vijesti", the majority of the leadership in the union is willing to give the board a deadline of September for the "election of the household director and management", with the conditions that regular salary payments will begin, as well as for the board to control Vuković's decisions and not punish workers and annulment of the existing Collective Agreement until a new one is drawn up with mutual agreement.
On June 23, the union organized a warning strike and published demands that were supported by the signatures of 260 full-time workers, which is slightly less than half. They are asking for the dismissal of the executive director Miroslav Vuković and complete management, as well as regular and non-selective payment of wages in the gross amount, development of a new systematization with the participation of the trade union, as well as the withdrawal of the initiative to the Constitutional Court for the evaluation of the constitutionality of the Collective Agreement. They consider Vuković, who used to be the director of the legal sector, to be part of the old management that they accuse of destroying "Plantaž".
Last year, the State Audit Institution gave two negative assessments of the company's work and operations, which is why the Special State Prosecutor's Office also launched an investigation. Two months ago, the government elected a new board of directors headed by Mr Nebojš Vuksanović, but there was no change in the executive director and management.
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