More than 100 tons of garbage have buried Budva, the container stations are overflowing, and waste is everywhere on the streets, spreading an unbearable stench.
This is the picture of Budva this morning, the fourth day since the workers of the "Čistoća" work unit of the Municipal Company have been on strike, and the garbage trucks have been parked in the company's car base in the Bečići settlement of Vještica.
They are unanimous in saying that they will not remove waste from the city until they are paid their back wages for December and January.
They are in an extremely difficult financial situation, as they say, and have no one to borrow money from to feed their families.
The strike was supported by the new management, led by the acting (acting) director of Komunalno, Ilija Gigović, and the Board of Directors of that company, who refuse to sign any order from the former management until an audit of the company's operations is conducted and the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) and the police enter the company, and as they say, the former director and his deputy Predrag Drago Ivanović and Milan Perović are to blame for the robbery of the company.
On the other hand, Perović, who supports the workers, has repeatedly invited Gigović to come to the Public Utility Company and pay the wages.
Gigović and the Board of Directors were prevented from entering the company for two and a half months, and their seal and records were confiscated.
The Municipality of Budva did not respond to Vijesti whether they would get involved in solving the problem.
The political conflict of the once united Democratic Front (DF), which split into two factions, is reflected in the turmoil of the Public Utilities Company, which was brought to the brink of bankruptcy due to millions in debt.
According to estimates by the Municipal Company, around 50 tons of garbage are removed from Budva daily during the winter.
Zenovic: Citizens should leave their waste in front of the Municipality
“Movement for the City - Đorđe Zenović strongly condemns the irresponsible attitude towards the employees of DOO Komunalno Budva.
"We appeal that the people who are among the few who deserve their salaries and who, despite their meager salaries, lack of sufficient personnel and adequate equipment, keep our city clean to some extent, be paid their salaries and that order be restored to this company. This is the result of what we have been warning about from the beginning - political recruitment and filling offices with party cadres who have nowhere to sit at the expense of employing people in the field, who should maintain the city and who receive adequate income for their work, has reached its culmination. Unfortunately, this playing with the fate of people and the fate of the city was not punished by the citizens in the previous elections, but rather rewarded for their inaction, irresponsibility and degradation of the city and the local government system. The only thing left for us as citizens in this situation is to symbolically send them a clear message by leaving bags of waste in front of the Municipality building, and save our streets and neighborhoods from the potential spread of the infection and the distressing images that have been flooding social networks and media in the region and Europe for a few years," the statement from this group of voters reads.
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