Workers of the Brewery in Niksic announce general strike
- Workers of the Brewery in Niksic announce general strike
- Post By daniloc
- 11:59, 19 februar, 2002

Management of the Brewery in Niksic refused the requests of the Union of the company to increase the wages for 30 percents, as well as the financial part of the proposed Collective contract, which is why the workers decided to begin a general strike.
Management of the Brewery was ready to increase wages for 18 percents, which is unacceptable for the Union. On that occasion the Union would organize today the collecting of signatures needed for organization of the strike, and after that they would stop the work.
In the letter that the Management of the company directed today to its employees, it had been stated that attitude of the management as regards the increase of wages was final, because their calculations show that the Brewery would have to sell about 90,000 hectolitres of beer more than last year in order to fulfil the requests of the Union.
"It is technically impossible since there are certain limitations in capacity," stated the management, adding that the sale of all breweries in FRY was 14 percents lower during the last year, with the tendency of further fall.
The Management estimated that if the Union would accept the proposal of the Brewery for increase of wages for 18 percents, the company should increase the sale for 45,000 hectolitres.
"That is ambitious, but feasible," states the Management.
Management of the Brewery claims that it is aware that its firm standpoint can induce the general strike in the company, emphasizing that it was not their aim, since the stoppage of work would mean loss for workers, the company and its shareholders.
The strike would induce the loss in sale and part of the market, and then the management could not guarantee the increase of wages and other conditions offered in its Collective contract.
"Increase of wages would be possible only if the joint Collective contract was signed," stated the Management in its letter.
The Management and the Union met last week and discussed the defining of the joint Collective contract, but the Union did not want to give up its requests.
"We remind you that you have already lost the increase of wages for January. This is why the worker who earned 600 DEM for December lost 111 DEM in January, which cannot be brought back," writes the letter of the Management of the Brewery.
At the end of January, the general manager of the Brewery, Patris Dirrick, directed a letter to the workers in which he stated that the management decided to increase the January wages for 18.55 percents, but that it could not make any cessions in financial part of the proposed Collective contract of the Union, which was not accepted by the workers.