Croatia - 2011

Former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader was arrested in December 2010 and will face charges for organising organising The process of forming or joining a trade union, or inducing other workers to form or join one. a wide network of corruption in state administration and in public companies. A number of other former high level Government officials, including two ministers, are also facing corruption charges in court. The country is expecting to finish EU accession negotiations in 2011 and become a member state in 2013, although some of the key problems, including restructuring of the shipbuilding sector, are still to be solved.

Short-term contracts complicate organising: The majority of recently employed workers are on fixed-term contracts for up to three years, with some contracts being as short as three months. This situation especially affects young workers and women. Facing the threat of their contracts not being renewed, workers do not dare to form or join a union.

Reprisals for trade union activities: It is not uncommon that shop stewards and union activists face reprisals, including dismissals, for organising organising The process of forming or joining a trade union, or inducing other workers to form or join one. industrial actions or for publicly speaking about illegalities in companies’ businesses.

Government ignores social dialogue: In May 2010 the Government proposed further changes to the Labour Code, recently harmonised with the EU standards, which would allow for an easier cancellation of collective agreements. The amendments were sent to Parliament without prior consultation with the social partners social partners Unions and employers or their representative organisations. . In order to prevent the amendments, five trade union confederations managed to collect more than 800,000 signatures for a referendum on the issue. Trade unions also temporarily suspended their participation in the Economic and Social Council (ESC) in May, as the Government did not respect the procedure for prior consultations in this body either. The dispute over the Labour Law was eventually resolved through negotiations, but trade unions remain outside the ESC.

Management denies union existence and dismisses shop stewards: The management of Tankerkomerc, in Zadar, dismissed two stop stewards, Danica Lenkić and Matko Perica, without the consent of their union. The management also tried to deny the existence of a trade union organisation in the company, although they had received information on the registration of the Autonomus Union Tankerkomerc in February 2010. In November, the union submitted a complaint to the Municipality Court in Zadar over the dismissal of the two shop stewards and over salary arrears of more than ten months.

Journalists denied right to strike: In the local daily Glas Istre, in Pula, the employer has repeatedly violated the Labour Law and the company-level collective agreement. In August 2010, the Municipality Court ruled that the collective agreement in the company had been illegally cancelled. A strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike was legally announced for 7 November. Prior to the strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike , the employer exercised pressure on the workers not to strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike and engaged journalists from other publications to write for the paper during the strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike . As the employer and the strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike committee did not reach an agreement on the extent of minimum product maintenance during the strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike , the decision was left to the court. The judge of the County Court in Pula, Ondina Vidulić Matijević, ruled that the production of newspaper is an activity that cannot be terminated during a strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike and issued a working obligation for 20 workers, thus effectively restricting the right to strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike for the journalists of Glas Istre. However, in a different procedure, the same court upheld on 29 December the decision of the Municipality Court from August on the illegal cancellation of the collective agreement. The right to strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike was also contested at the local radio station Radio 101, in Zagreb, where the management claimed that a warning strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike organised on 7 November 2010 due to unpaid salaries was illegal.

Two shop stewards dismissed: Ante Buljan and Branko Norac, shop stewards of the Trade Union of Drivers and Traffic Workers of Autoprijevoz, in Sinj, were dismissed in April 2010 without the consent of their union. Both shop stewards then started a hunger strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike . Later that month they were received by the President of Croatia Ivo Josipović and by the Head of the Prime Minister’s Office. In July, the Municipal State Attorney’s Office in Sinj initiated a procedure in the Municipality Court against Managing Director Joško Jerkan for the illegal dismissals. An investigation was also under way for a wide range of other criminal activities in the company.

Dismissed for organising a strike: Workers of the brewery Osječka pivovara in Osijek, Tomislav Topalović, Tomislav Vranješ and Goran Redžić, were dismissed in April 2010 following a ten-day strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike in connection with a dispute over a collective agreement. The dismissed workers are members of the Indepentent Trade Union of Osječka pivovara, affiliated to the Croatian Trade Union Association (HUS), which organised the strike strike The most common form of industrial action, a strike is a concerted stoppage of work by employees for a limited period of time. Can assume a wide variety of forms.

See general strike, intermittent strike, rotating strike, sit-down strike, sympathy strike, wildcat strike . The trade union has filed a lawsuit.