Croacia - Union dissolved under employer pressure (2012)

On 16 June, the Trade Union of Istria and Kvarner (SIK) announced that its enterprise level organisation at the public water management company Vodovod, in Pula, was closing down. The decision came after the last of 22 members in the company left the union because of employer pressure. Anti union harassment had been going on for some time. The shop steward, Stanko Radulović, was harassed by the company director Darko Višnjić for months, due to his involvement in collective negotiations in the company. He was finally dismissed, without the union’s consent, on 6 June 2010. On 19 July, the Municipal Court in Pula ruled in favour of Radulović, who had sued Vodovod for unlawful dismissal.