Deindustrijalizacija i radnički otpor - Pokret za slobodu

What do you intend to do now?Our main goal is to prevent the factory from going into bankruptcy,like the thousands other factories throughout Serbia that have beenruined in privatization scams. The strike began with the demand thatthe owners pay us what they owe us, but now we are insisting on theannulment of the privatization deal and the renewed start-up of production.With the current management of the factory all we can expectis further decline and bankruptcy. We are expecting the municipality toactively become involved this time around since the failure of the lastremaining factory in Rača would translate into the whole city’s ruin.Rača’s other factories have already fallen victim to Serbia’s recent spateof wild privatization.Therefore, we have put forward a demand for the annulment of theprivatization agreement since the draft agreement on investments wasviolated. The ”Dama-M” company, owned by Dragan Mostić, who is amember of Dejanović’s consortium, ordered some machines from TASin Bosnia, and then resold them for a much higher price to ZastavaElektro. This equipment was never used in our factory, which meansthat the mandatory investments in the initial agreement weren’t carriedout in accordance with the document (either in terms of the amountor in functional terms). Proceedings have been initiated in Rača’s MunicipalCourt against those responsible for a conflict of interests in thepurchase and resale of this equipment from Bosnia.What is the plan once the privatization agreement is annulled?The municipality needs to now show its interest in Zastava Elektroand actively participate in what we are doing – that is to say it shouldjoin us in pressuring the Agency for Privatization to annul this privatizationagreement. After this, the municipality should help us bringback our foreign partner Delphi to resume its work with Zastava Elektro.The local governing bodies can no longer justify their non-involvementby saying they don’t have any jurisdiction over privatizationand that their support can only be limited to letters of protocol. In thecorrespondence with Delphi, the company stresses its desire to resumethe partnership with Zastava Elektro. Now we in Rača must show thata serious capacity for business partnerships exists in this city. Delphinever had an issue with the workers. The bosses are the problem andthey are the ones who must leave.336