Tenants' Association: Support for supermarket employees, we have confirmation that many employees will not come to work on Sunday

The Tenants' Association of Montenegro expressed full and unreserved support for the supermarket employees who decided to engage in civil disobedience.

"We already have confirmation that many employees will not be coming to work on Sunday, which means that stores will still remain closed - a sign that the strength of workers cannot be ignored," the statement said.

The Tenants' Association, it is added, stands shoulder to shoulder with these brave people, and clearly sends a message that this is a fight against injustice, against a system that puts power and profit before the life and dignity of the common man.

"Their courage deserves our support, respect and solidarity, and gives hope that ordinary citizens will no longer peacefully endure injustice," the statement said.

The Tenants' Association said that these brave people, overworked, with low salaries and an insecure life, are often also tenants, barely making ends meet.

"Their fight is not just a fight for wages - it is a fight for dignity, respect and basic human rights in a society that often ignores them," the statement said.

This is, as assessed, the first form of this kind of civil disobedience in Montenegro, and it raises hope that there will be more and more such actions, because an increasing number of ordinary citizens, victims of the system, see injustice and decide to stand up to it.

"State mechanisms, including the Constitutional Court, often fail to protect workers' rights in practice, while politicians, for election reasons, pretend to defend them. Unfortunately, the so-called unions, out of fear of offending the authorities, remain silent observers, leaving workers alone in their struggle," the statement concludes.

Yesterday, the Official Gazette published on its website the decision of the Constitutional Court of Montenegro on the repeal of Article 35a, which referred to the non-working Sunday in the field of trade, with the date of the Official Gazette issue of February 10.

The decisions of the Constitutional Court enter into force on the day of publication in the Official Gazette, which means that the following Sunday, February 15, will be a working day for retail employees.