Belgrade, Dec. 7, 2009 (Serbia Today) - In a break from politics as usual, and a sign of real leader ship in the Serbian Government, Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said that workers are holding justified strikes in Serbia, and that those who robbed these workers should first be arrested.
There is an increasing number of workers for various State owned enterprises that have either been sold or are in the process of being reorganized. Thousands of these workers all over Serbia have either not been paid for work already rendered, or not been given severance pay, benefits, and new jobs that were promised, and Minister Dacic appears to have seen enough and is making a stand.
The Socialist Party of Serbia leader said that there must be discussion of “whether there is only an elite in this country of several dozen wealthy people who robbed and bought Serbia, or whether there are the millions who created Serbia,” said Dacic at the 19th anniversary celebration of the SPS city council in Belgrade, and he went on to say that most of the demands of the workers who are striking and protesting in Serbia are completely justified, reported Serbian news service B92.
While these remarks may seem inflammatory to some, there is a growing feeling outside of the Government, and now inside the Government that Serbian powerbrokers, hanging on from the Communist Party, have unjustly taken profits from privatization and illegal monopolies since the breakup of Yugoslavia.
“First, all those who made these workers redundant and robbed their factories should be arrested,” and then there can be talk of getting the workers off the streets, Dacic said.
Tough talk like this is not often heard from such a high seat in the Serbian Government. It is a positive sign that Serbia’s Ministers now have the freedom to make such remarks. Dacic and his colleges’ progress in facing corruption will be followed closely, as Serbia put its affairs in order, and prepares to join the EU
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