Miners of the Subsidiary company Rudnici mrkog uglja (RMU) of Zenica will start a four-day, one-hour warning strike tomorrow at seven o’clock, which, if their demands are not accepted, will turn into a general strike on Thursday, May 25 from 3:00 p.m.
The trade union ZD RMU Zenica made the decision to organize a warning strike and a general strike, due to non-compliance with the provisions of the collective agreement, at its meeting on May 11. They informed the President of the Independent Union of Mine Workers of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sinan Husić, and the Director of the ZD RMU Zenica, Mensur Hukić.
As the reason for the announcement and organization of the strikes, they cited blocking of the company’s accounts and the fact that the workers’ rates for loans to the banks for March did not increase, as well as the impossibility of paying them for April.
“With the blocking of the mine’s accounts, there is a justified fear for the further work and survival of RMU Zenica”, it is stated in the decision on the strike, which the Trade Union ZD RMU Zenica sent to the competent addresses.
Source: Sarajevo Times