Deindustrijalizacija i radnički otpor - Pokret za slobodu

This last provision is imperative, as the PA is obliged to appointthe representative of public capital the very same day of the contract’stermination, no matter what the status of the company (bankrupt, ornot). If the representative had been appointed as the owner of 30% ofŠinvoz’s capital, he/she would have been able, according to Article 129of the Law on Bankruptcy Proceedings, to submit the reorganizationplan. This was the least that the state could do for a company that wentinto bankruptcy because of the irresponsible and illegal acts of the PAin the first place. Yet, the PA did nothing to press the fraud chargesagainst Ivković, so on 14 July 2008 he submitted his own reorganizationplan for Šinvoz.Ivković’s plan for the reorganization of the company that he infact destroyed would provide only 50 jobs by 2010, and a 100 more by2012!The assembly of creditors, that was convened to make the decisionon Ivković’s reorganization plan, was scheduled for 24 September2008 at the Zrenjanin Economic Court. As legal majority creditorIvković was in a position to adopt his reorganization plan by himself.About 100 workers came to the Economic Court as small creditors, andstarted applauding and chanting when the judge entered the courtroom.The assembly couldn’t be held because of the noise, so the sessionwas postponed for October 1. The workers submitted an initiativebefore the court to delay the hearing on the reorganization plan andsuspend the bankruptcy proceedings until the parallel criminal proceedingsconcerning Ivković’s deliberate forcing of a bankruptcy onŠinvoz were completed.On September 31, the governments’ Anti-Corruption Council releasedits report on Šinvoz, stating that it was a drastic example of lawbreaking in the privatization process. The report further blamed thestates' Privatization Agency for possible corruption given its drasticallypoor regulation of Ivković’s fulfillment of contractual obligations. TheCouncil advised the Government to plead with the Economic Court tohalt the bankruptcy proceedings until the Prosecutors' Office completesits investigation of Ivković’s management for deliberate bankruptcy.On October 1, the judge refused to answer the workers requests, sothey started again by applauding and chanting: “The Factory is ours!”;“Arrest the thieves!”; “The Court is for the People!” and so-on. Afterabout half-an-hour, the police kicked the workers out of the courtroom,and the restructuring plan was adopted without the workers be-332