Dragoslav Ljubičić lost his job at TENT because of his support for the protests. Now, he is once again calling on his colleagues to combat "opportunism" and stop work before March 15
Dragoslav Ljubičić, a trade unionist who recently supported the protests got fired from TENT, once again called on his colleagues not to be "opportunistic", to suspend work and thus "save EPS and their jobs".
In a post on Facebook, Ljubičić described himself as the rooster that crowed first and was the first to die.
He reminded that he invited his colleagues to protests in November and again in January, but that only a few of them gathered.
Before the big protest on March 15, Ljubičić now writes: "Last call to former colleagues: straighten your spine, remember the future, remember your responsibility for it." Stop work, save EPS and your jobs."
He wrote that not only students and teachers, with the support of lawyers and artists, can defeat "bad students".
"Help needed! Whose? Well, yours, you who are not bad students, but who for the time being avoid joining the good students out of opportunism," concluded Ljubičić.
He is the general secretary of the Social Democratic Party and was a trustee of the trade union "Nezavisnost" in TENT. He came out publicly especially after the big disaster in TENT, when in 2021 part of Serbia was left without electricity and heating due to the burning of tailings.
A series of layoffs at EPS
During the protests, Serbia saw two "general strikes" that were not classic general strikes. No large union has joined them, no large system has stopped working - and the electric power system is the largest.
On the contrary, Ljubičić is not the only one who was fired from the system of the Electric Power Company of Serbia due to his support for the student rebellion.
Goran Perišić, the manager of an excavator in Kolubara, was fired in February because he allegedly violated work discipline by recording a video in which he congratulated students on the New Year at his workplace.
"I have no words for this, as a person I am hurt, I am hurt as a worker, I have no words to describe how I feel. I have 35 years of experience. "My management and my superiors have no objection to my work," Perišić told Vreme.
At the beginning of March, after 38 years of work in the Kolubara Basin, Vesna Lakićević was also fired for posting on social networks calling for a strike and talking about the situation within the company.
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