{"id":318581,"date":"2017-07-23T11:20:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T10:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/union-shuts-down-serb-auto-strike\/"},"modified":"2017-07-23T11:20:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T10:20:52","slug":"union-shuts-down-serb-auto-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/union-shuts-down-serb-auto-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Union shuts down Serb auto strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Union shuts down Serb auto strike<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Verena Nees<br \/>\n    <br \/>22 July 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Just one day after Serb autoworkers voted by a large majority to continue their strike at Fiat (FCA) in Kragujevac, the strike committee leadership suddenly announced an end to the action on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>After a two-hour meeting behind closed doors with Prime Minister Ana Brnabi\u0107, strike leader Zoran Markovi\u0107\u2014without providing any explanation\u2014informed the workers they would be back at work the following day.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook message shortly after 10 pm, he commented blandly, \u201cAfter 16 days of strike, we agreed today with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia to begin negotiations with FCA management with the active participation of the prime minister at 12 pm tomorrow. The strike committee and the representatives of the independent trade unions subsequently agreed to end the strike and begin work on July 19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The same Markovi\u0107 Monday evening had called for a large rally in front of Kragujevac\u2019s city hall. The demonstration, which was to have taken place Wednesday and include representatives from other factories, was also cancelled. Instead, Markovi\u0107 issued what amounted to a command on Facebook, \u201cWhen you begin work tomorrow, I expect you to respect the norms and regulations of the company without exception and carry out your work to the highest quality and with workplace morale.\u201d In addition, according to the trade union bureaucrat, the workers should tolerate no \u201cdisunity\u201d among them, i.e. no criticism of the union\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>Samostalni Sindikat (SSSS), Serbia\u2019s largest union, whose members led the strike, has shut down the three-week strike at a moment\u2019s notice against the express wishes of the majority of workers and without having obtained any concessions from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/07\/22\/serb-j22.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Union shuts down Serb auto strike By Verena Nees 22 July 2017 Just one day after Serb autoworkers voted by a large majority to continue their strike at Fiat (FCA) in Kragujevac, the strike committee leadership suddenly announced an end to the action on Tuesday evening. After a two-hour meeting behind closed doors with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-318581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}