The seventh day of the self-organized strike of postal workers throughout Serbia is underway.
Representatives of the "Sloga" Post Office Workers' Union, who supported the strike, are suffering illegal pressure, after the new Annex to the labor contract was written.
"Sloga" strongly condemns the persecution of the representatives of the "Sloga" Post Office Workers' Union, Stefan Mitrović and Zoran Pavlović, and as stated in their press release, if the aforementioned Annex is not signed, their employment contracts will be terminated. Postmen on suspension of work, who do not belong to any trade union, are threatened with warnings before dismissal.
"We believe that this action by JP Pošta Srbije is a brutal retaliation for the current postmen's strike that is ongoing and spreading throughout Serbia. We see this pressure as retaliation for not accepting the meeting of our trade unionists with acting director Zoran Đorđević," the announcement states.
The trade union specifically points out that the status of acting authorized person of JP Posta Serbia Zoran Đorđević expired on March 15, 2022.
"If that same CEO signed the document in October 2023, a year or more after the expiration of his authority, there is a serious question about the legal validity of such a document and the country we live in, which violates its own laws and which tolerates violence against workers," they emphasize from " Syllables".
As stated in the announcement, of all the employees who have been on strike since October 24, only Stefan Mitrović, the president of the union, and his colleague Zoran Pavlović received the Annex to the employment contract. These notices were not delivered to them personally, because they refused to sign them, but were published on the notice board of JP Pošta Srbije. Other postmen, who are also on strike and do not belong to any union, received warnings before being fired.
"We demand the immediate withdrawal of the Annex to the labor contract to our union representatives and a warning before dismissal to all those who are on suspension of work." We call on all employees of JP Posta Serbia to support their colleagues and to unite in protest and thereby preserve their dignity, which is being trampled on," appeals the union.
The United Trade Unions of Serbia "Sloga" strongly condemn the open violence against all workers of JP Posta Serbia, because the postmen and delivery people started a strike due to unbearable social poverty and the volume of work to which the management does not respond at all and has been making empty promises for years.
Five postman requests
Unsatisfied employees of the "Post of Serbia" decided to suspend work across 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.
The minister proposed measures to end the strike
Acting director of JP Post of Serbia, Zoran Đorđević, at today's meeting with company directors and trade unions, proposed several measures to end the postmen's protest and improve their position.
Đorđević said that in the fifth period he discussed with the trade unions how to improve work at the Post Office and reward those who deserve it, primarily those who work in technology.
"These are postmen, delivery people, counter workers, technicians at the Post Office, those who work in logistics centers. I listened carefully to the demands of those workers, I understand their position, it is not without grounds, and it is my duty and obligation as the general director to find a way to help those workers", he said.
He also suggested that in the future norms and analyzes of the region should be clearly drawn up, which would make it possible to know exactly who should do what and how much they should do, and that, if he fulfills that norm, his salary would be about 40 percent higher.
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