The presidents of the both trade unions of the Bauxite Mines, Borislav Bojanovic and Ilija Djilas warned they would express their dissatisfaction radically again, unless everything agreed was implemented.
“If that did not happen, the protests would be even more radical,” Bojanovic and Djilas said.
The mining machinery – a loading shovel, an excavator and trucks – will be parked at the area of the Bauxite Mines’ transport sector in the locality of Gracanica.
The workers decided to end the protest after the meeting with Economy Minister, Vladimir Kavaric, who elaborated details of the Government’s decision to solve the problems in the company.
“The Minister of Economy, Vladimir Kavaric, has promised the workers of the Niksic-based Bauxite mines that he will make efforts in order to complete bridging of their service gaps next week”, the representative of the Independent Trade Union of the Bauxite Mines, Borisav Bojanovic, said.
According to him, a step forward has been made.
“Kavaric has promised us he will urge the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare to implement the social programme for the workers to be implemented next week,” Bojanovic said after the meeting with Minister Kavaric.
He said that the social program, i.e. severance amounting to €6,000 – €13,350, applied to 15-20 workers who wanted to leave the Bauxite Mines unconditionally and were not interested in bridging service gaps.
The representatives of the Unions were not sure whether the workers would agree to unblock the road Niksic-Zupa in order to normalise life of about 5,000 residents of 12 villages who had been cut from the town for nine days.
“Anger and disappointment among the workers are tremendously high because there are a lot of stories on the company “Neksan”, the workers and politics,” Bojanovic explained, adding that the rally was not the matter of someone’s political will but it was about workers’ rights.
“We have a message to those who want to reap political benefits from our torment not to come to Rubeza because our rally represents purely seeking possible solutions and constitutionally guaranteed workers’ rights,” Bojanovic said.
“Now there is a public auction and I think the determined initial price is too large. I am afraid hardly anyone could appear as a bidder in that situation,” Bojanovic said.
The Bauxite Mines workers radicalised their protest after the Committee of Creditors had rejected the “Neksan’s” offer to purchase property of the Mines for €4.4 million. The owner of the “Neksan”, Miodrag Daka Davidovic, had also offered €600,000 for social programme.
