The unions of four municipal public companies in Pljevlja have warned the local parliament members that the failure to adopt the municipal budget for 2026 directly threatens the payment of salaries to employees in these collectives. They have also announced the possibility of organizing a strike if the municipal assembly members do not fulfill their obligations.
"We are addressing this directly to the decision-makers in the Pljevlja Municipal Council - councilors who, by their actions (i.e. inaction - inaction) grossly neglect their obligations, thus recklessly endangering our fundamental rights, i.e. the right to normal and uninterrupted work and payment of salaries. Gentlemen, the entire month of January 2026 has passed, in which, like in December 2025, the Budget was not adopted, which, we can now say with certainty, will directly jeopardize the possibility of paying our salaries in the coming period," states the joint statement signed by the union presidents Vladimir Klačar (DOO "Komunalne usluge"), Jovan Bujišić (DOO "Vodovod"), Mališa Tošić (DOO "Lokalni putevi") and Miljan Svrkota (DOO "Čistoća").
Unionists emphasize that they are not interested in political games, but in the existence of hundreds of families who depend on regular income.
"We do not enter into the reasons and conduct of your political games, but on this occasion we inform you and announce that in the coming period we will take all necessary measures and steps in accordance with our capabilities in order to fight for our basic rights, which we will never allow anyone to threaten us again. If you do not dedicate yourself to your work and the obligations entrusted to you by the citizens in the near future, we will be forced to radicalize the measures of our fight for our rights in the form of strikes. We hope that you are aware that such measures would affect our fellow citizens and users of our services the most, but we also hope that in this situation you will be honest enough to come out before the citizens and say that all of you, by name and surname, have knowingly brought the population into such a situation," the statement reads.
Trade union organizations emphasize that they have the full support of the Housing and Utilities Union of Montenegro and say that they will never again allow the basic rights of employees to be threatened.
"We emphasize once again, gentlemen, we are not interested in your reasons, we remind you that you have your obligations for which you are duly paid and which directly affect the existence of hundreds of families and we will take all the mechanisms at our disposal to prevent you from doing so, for which we have the full support of the Union of Housing and Communal Services of Montenegro," the statement concludes.
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