Deindustrijalizacija i radnički otpor - Pokret za slobodu

Establishing a Coordinang Commiee forWorkers Protests in SerbiaThe Strike Committees of Zastava Elektro, Srbolek, Šinvozand BEK have established a joint Coordinating Committeefor workers Protests in Serbia, with the aim of struggling insolidarity with one another against the closure of our factoriesand the preservation of our jobs.We call on all Strike Committees in Serbia to jointly find a way ofpreserving our jobs, for a way to survive. After 20 years of collapse,finding solutions to our problems certainly won't be easy. It is preciselyfor this reason that we must immediately begin looking for them.Throughout Serbia at the moment workers are organizing protestsbecause their jobs and the survival of their families are threatened bythe catastrophic state of industry. Despite their number and frequency,these workers initiatives still don't have the power to affect significantchange, while their temporary successes are exclusively reduced to securingthe paying-out of severances and wages. We believe that suchoutcomes fail to address the source of the problem that workers in Serbiaface. In order to keep our jobs broader changes are needed in thestate and in society.The Šinvoz and BEK factories in Zrenjanin are no longer workingbecause the state allowed the buyers of these firms to drive them intentionallyinto bankruptcy. This was done so that upon the firms collapsethe new private owners could take over their assets as the maincreditors [using shell companies] and transform the factories into constructionplots. Despite the warnings of workers, the state has turned ablind eye to such scams, leaving workers without jobs and shareholderswithout shares.The majority of shares in Belgrade's Srbolek were bought through afinancial scam carried out on the Belgrade stock-exchange. Even thoughthe Securities Commission confirmed two years ago that Sbrolek's buyersviolated the Law on the Acquisition of Stockholding Companies(2006), the usurpers were allowed to purchase the disputed 25% ofshares with Srbolek's own funds. In effect they were able to re-assumecontrol over the oldest pharmaceutical company in Serbia and to continueleading it into debt and bankruptcy. Is the state waiting for the338