The Union of Free Trade Unions of Montenegro (USSCG) called today to urgently stop the persecution of the President of the Independent Police Union of Montenegro, Igor Rmandić.
The police officer from Herceg Novi and the president of the Independent Police Union, Igor Rmandić, who after 27 years of work received a decision to be transferred to Bijelo Polje, claims that the authorities want to suppress unionism by putting pressure on him.
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"The illegal and unfounded reassignment of colleague Igor Rmandić, president of the Independent Union of the Police of Montenegro (NSPCG), represents an unscrupulous continuation of anti-union discrimination against our colleagues in the NSPCG. Colleague Rmandić is a family man who has been conscientiously, exemplary and responsible for 27 years the police service in Herceg Novi, where he normally lives. He graduated from the Police Academy (as well as the Faculty of Law), which means that he has been tied to the police uniform for 31 years, and he has never before, in 27 years of service, been reassigned to another place of work." , the USSCG press release points out.
They added that Rmandić's previous trade union activities did not affect his professionalism in performing basic work tasks and duties, but on the contrary, were exclusively focused on what constitutes the core of trade union work, which is the improvement of working conditions and the socio-economic position of police employees.
"Reassigning your colleague to work in a place 250 kilometers away from his/her place of residence and his/her family is, above all, an inhumane and inhumane act of which its perpetrators should be ashamed. Therefore, the down-to-earth and vindictive intention of the elder is more than clear personnel in the Police Directorate of Montenegro, which is under the direct authority of the Ministry of the Interior (we have already informed the public about the anti-union activities of the current Minister of the Interior according to the NSPCG), to "punish" colleague Rmandić in this way for his decisive, reasoned and courageous union activities. Such a brazen demonstration of force from the position of the government is a shameful act for the new Montenegrin democracy. That is why we call on the Government to react urgently and distance itself from this behavior of the senior staff in the UPCG, and to cancel the decision on reassignment, in order to stop further persecution of colleague Rmandić. Also, We ask that the elders who are responsible for the illegal reassignment of the president of the NSPCG be sanctioned," the USSCG statement reads.
They also said that the Labor Law (Article 196), as well as the conventions of the International Labor Organization, prescribes, among other things, that an authorized trade union representative cannot be assigned to another workplace at the same place during the performance of trade union activities and for six months after their termination. or another employer or otherwise put in a disadvantageous position, if he acts in accordance with the law, the collective agreement and the employment contract.
"The USSCG will resolutely defend the labor and trade union rights of colleague Rmandić, and therefore all members of the NSPCG. We will once again inform all relevant domestic and international addresses about this new and drastic example of anti-union discrimination against the NSPCG," the USSCG statement concluded. .
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