The director of the Post of Serbia, Zoran Đorđević, said yesterday that he did absolutely everything to meet the demands of the striking postal workers, that is, that he will increase salaries by about 7.000 dinars and that he will raise overtime bonuses. He added that he will put his signature on all the promises and that he expects the workers to return to work after that.
He pointed out that since the beginning of the strike at the Post Office, he has not had official discussions with union representatives and that he has not received official demands, but that fulfilled everything which he heard about from informal sources.
However, the United Trade Unions of Serbia "Sloga" told the portal "Vreme" that Zoran Đorđević, former minister, should not be taken at his word.
"Zoran Đorđević is precisely one of those people whose word cannot be trusted at all." "He personally lied to me when he was the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Serbia," Željko Veselinović, president of the United Trade Unions of Serbia "Sloga", told the "Vremena" portal.
As Veselinović said, Đorđević then asked him for FAP engineers to create a project for a new truck that the army would buy, and when the people did that, he deceived them and never contacted them again.
"The second time he lied as Minister of Labor, when he threatened the workers of DES Novi Sad, who are disabled, behind closed doors with dismissal and forced them to voluntarily leave the company, and then he hugged them in front of journalists and said that the state takes care of the disabled and that no one will stay behind jobless and of course lied and fired most of them very soon after that.
Veselinović concludes that the current director of the Post Office should not be trusted and that workers without a signed agreement, salary increase and change in systematization should not accept his promises because he will definitely deceive them.
"The government never voluntarily fulfills the demands of the workers." Only under pressure and strikes. They mostly make use of false promises in the pre-election campaign and later. They only react when people rebel and organize, which unfortunately rarely happens. Bright examples are ambulance drivers and now postal workers," states Veselinović.
Let's remind you, the dissatisfied workers of "Post of Serbia" decided to suspend work throughout the country, which they started on October 24, first in Novi Sad, Vrbas, Pančevo, then in certain parts of Belgrade, in order to spread to other parts of Serbia.
The employees of the "Post of Serbia" have five demands: the immediate reception of the optimal number of executors, because there is a shortage of workers; current salary increase of at least 30 percent; payment of earnings from profits for the previous year by the end of October; an end to "silent" discrimination against working employees and favoritism of individuals and an official guarantee from the Government of Serbia that the demands will be met.
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