Bosnia, ferrovie, sciopero
Termina lo sciopero nelle ferrovie in Bosnia, riprende il rifornimento dell’industria
– È terminato lo sciopero dei ferrovieri in Bosnia nella regione musulmano-croata è terminato dopo un incontro tripartito tra sindacato, governo e direzione aziendale.
– Lo sciopero era iniziato domenica, dopo la sospensione di 10 macchinisti che avevano rifiutato il guidatore unico.
– È ripreso il rifornimento delle materie prime provenienti dalla Croazia per Aluminij Mostar, l’unico stabilimento di lavorazione dell’alluminio, che rischiava di fermare gli impianti.
– Aluminij Mostar aveva chiesto al governo della federazione bosniaca di consentire alle ferrovie il trasporto dal porto di Ploce dei materiali ad esso necessari.
– Lo sciopero ha toccato anche altri grandi esportatori per acciaierie e industria carbonifera, che lamentano costi per lo sciopero di migliaia di € al giorno.
I sindacati chiedono la revoca le modifiche al contratto di lavoro e lo statuto che regola le condizioni di lavoro, e il reintegro dei lavoratori sospesi, in caso contrario verrà indetto un altro sciopero per il 28 dicembre, per tutta la rete nazionale.
Bosnia rail strike ends, industry supplies resume
* Enables aluminium plant, others to get raw materials
* Rail unions threaten another strike next week
– SARAJEVO, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Rail workers in Bosnia’s Muslim-Croat region ended a strike on Saturday, reestablishing a vital supply line of raw materials from Croatia and preventing the country’s only aluminium plant from shutting down.
– Aluminij Mostar, which had earlier halted an anode plant, warned on Friday it was running out of raw materials and might have to stop electrolysis permanently at the weekend since it would be impossible to restart the furnaces.
– The company, based in the southern town of Mostar, had urged the government of Bosnia’s Muslim-Croat federation to allow Croatian Railways to transport the vital stocks of bitumen, petrocoke and alumina from the port of Ploce and prevent 900 job losses.
– Railway traffic in the federation, which had come to a halt on Sunday after the region’s railway company suspended 10 engine drivers who refused to obey a management order to drive trains with only one engineer, was restored after an emergency meeting between unions, management and the government.
– Industries face a new threat on Dec. 28, for when railway unions have announced a strike covering the whole Bosnian network if the government does not revoke changes to a collective bargaining deal and a statute regulating work conditions, as well as reinstating the suspended drivers.
"The general strike is already announced. We will decide whether to call it off after we resolve some outstanding issues with the management in coming days," union[e] leader Vernes Buljugija said.
– The suspension of rail traffic has threatened other major exporters in the coke and steel industries that also get raw materials from Ploce.
Gobal Ispat Coke Industry Lukavac (GIKL) in the northern town of Lukavac, was forced to operate at a technical minimum of only 30 percent of its capacity and said it would have to cut it by another 7 percent at the weekend unless traffic was normalised.
– The companies said the strike had cost them tens of thousands euros a day and would affect sales.
(Reporting by Maja Zuvela; Editing by John Stonestreet)