Dissatisfied workers protested because of lower wages and lack of benefits. They demand that their salaries be equalized with those of employees in the same positions in the Electric Power Company of Serbia and that, like them, they receive a benefited seniority
Workers "Pro Tenta" who are engaged in the Kostolac mines they stopped working for a couple of hours and gathered in front of the Directorate of Thermal Power Plants and Mines Kostolac, reports RTS.
The workers demand that their salaries be equalized with those of employees in the same positions in the Electric Power Company of Serbia and that, like them, they receive a benefited seniority or that they be hired directly by EPS.
As stated in the announcement, the employees of "Pro Tenta" have been in an unfair and unfavorable financial situation for many years, because for the same work they perform as their colleagues from EPS, they earn 40 percent less salary without benefited seniority.
From Monday, November 18, work is planned to be suspended for one hour a day if they cannot reach an agreement, according to the announcement.
For teachers and teaching staff who did not receive salaries due to the suspension of work in schools, the Alek Kavčić Foundation and the informal group of IT experts Solidarity Network for Education created platforms to collect money
After a long and serious illness, the famous Yugoslav and Serbian journalist Nadežda Gaće, founder and editor-in-chief of the weekly Novi Magazin and member of the Management Board of the Media Association, passed away on the night between Wednesday and Thursday.
At the meeting of trade unions, representatives of media associations and management of RTV, an agreement was reached on the initiation of several important processes - the selection of editors and program directors, the new Collective Agreement, the reception of the student delegation and other issues.
Although calendar spring is close, Serbia woke up this morning with frost and temperatures that in some places reached as low as -7 degrees
The Bezistan Pass, which connects Terazije and Nikola Pašić Square, has once again shown how neglected and dangerous it is - part of the ceiling collapsed in the area where the city government had previously prohibited movement due to the safety of citizens, reported the Ecological Uprising
We allowed ourselves two dictators in 30 years. That is the core of our problem. There is no quick fix for this. And that's why March 15 could not be the Fifth of October. Because the Fifth of October is not enough now. Must be slower, must be smarter. It needs to be more thorough. Yesterday was not the end, because this is just the beginning
The speech of the head of state, Aleksandar Vučić, is best described by the word - indisposition. The March 15 protest is his heavy political defeat. Now everyone saw that he no longer had the ability to prevent events, let alone create them
All those who lied all day long on the regime televisions that the "colored revolution failed" know very well what happened on Saturday, March 15, in Belgrade: they were given a warning before being expelled
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