1 00:00:09,170 --> 00:00:11,170 It just exploded. 2 00:00:11,793 --> 00:00:20,549 The point it reached became obvious when riots broke out in all cities. 3 00:00:20,749 --> 00:00:27,158 We started with peaceful protests. We've been protesting peacefully for three years. 4 00:00:27,463 --> 00:00:30,207 Three years! We are protesting peacefully. 5 00:00:30,781 --> 00:00:34,778 But those criminals don't understand the language of peaceful protest! 6 00:00:45,207 --> 00:00:49,326 Dita started working in June 1977. 7 00:00:49,497 --> 00:00:52,796 It was a state-owned company that worked until the war started. 8 00:00:53,334 --> 00:00:59,091 Dita had about 700, 750 employees. 9 00:00:59,277 --> 00:01:01,904 Then the war started. 10 00:01:02,113 --> 00:01:10,929 After the war, we, the workers, bought the shares and became the majority owners of Dita. 11 00:01:11,293 --> 00:01:15,550 Nationalism is a big problem. What matters is not if somebody is smart, 12 00:01:15,650 --> 00:01:19,117 but to which nation this person belongs to. 13 00:01:19,305 --> 00:01:22,682 We, the workers, are here from different nations, but we are all united. 14 00:01:23,221 --> 00:01:29,180 We are not like politicians, who are divided by nations and political parties. 15 00:01:29,907 --> 00:01:34,375 Politicians are dividing people, but in fact they all sit and drink together. 16 00:01:34,751 --> 00:01:38,759 They just want to divide people. - Right. They want to divide us. 17 00:01:39,490 --> 00:01:43,934 They party and drink together, and share the profits. 18 00:01:45,131 --> 00:01:48,079 We didn't have health insurance. 19 00:01:48,852 --> 00:02:05,530 They were not paying our health and pension contributions and nobody cared. 20 00:02:06,146 --> 00:02:10,578 Then they stopped paying our wages. Then we got them once every three months. 21 00:02:11,246 --> 00:02:16,616 Then we started to complain and to strike. 22 00:02:17,091 --> 00:02:21,725 The union abandoned us. They were the first to abandon us. 23 00:02:22,247 --> 00:02:28,041 They told us to stop complaining. That we would lose our jobs, etc. 24 00:02:28,418 --> 00:02:38,751 We haven't got our wages for 27 months, our health and pension contributions for 52 months. 25 00:02:39,358 --> 00:02:44,463 You can see our workers' IDs there. We are officially employed, but we get nothing. 26 00:02:44,664 --> 00:02:52,531 That's why we say that we are not even lucky enough to go to the job center. 27 00:02:52,731 --> 00:02:58,440 I want to tell you something funny. We hadn't got three or four salaries, 28 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:07,726 but the owner wanted to show he was a good man, and said he would lend us some money. 29 00:03:08,050 --> 00:03:14,839 He felt sorry for us, because we were in such a difficult situation! 30 00:03:15,578 --> 00:03:19,283 So he lended us 170KM (85€) per person to survive for a while. 31 00:03:19,624 --> 00:03:26,406 He owned us money, but he lended some to us and asked to be payed back later! 32 00:03:26,922 --> 00:03:29,203 We went on hunger strike, but it didn't help. 33 00:03:29,481 --> 00:03:38,270 Then we went to the streets, to show the other people what was going on in this factory. 34 00:03:38,642 --> 00:03:44,011 But this also happened in other factories, they just didn't have the courage to go out. 35 00:03:44,249 --> 00:03:49,897 We were courageous enough to start this. And that brought us to the situation today. 36 00:03:50,150 --> 00:03:55,552 I've been working here for 36 years. If they had payed my pension contributions regularly, 37 00:03:55,861 --> 00:03:58,171 I would already have retired. 38 00:03:58,466 --> 00:04:05,570 We've organized ourselves. We guard the factory in shifts 24/7 until they find a solution. 39 00:04:05,770 --> 00:04:10,780 We are one of the shifts that guard the factory. 40 00:04:11,563 --> 00:04:20,829 We thought about ways to fight for our rights and then we decided to guard the factory 24/7, 41 00:04:21,028 --> 00:04:31,450 so they don't come and empty it. All the other factories around us 42 00:04:32,128 --> 00:04:35,443 have been destroyed and emptied. 43 00:04:35,646 --> 00:04:39,138 We guard our factory, and will see what will happen. 44 00:04:39,723 --> 00:04:46,208 We must find our own ways to get food and transportation. Nobody cares about us. 45 00:04:46,443 --> 00:04:51,840 Nobody asks if we need something. Nobody. 46 00:04:52,192 --> 00:04:56,346 We have organized everything by ourselves. We have our shifts. 47 00:04:56,554 --> 00:04:59,385 If anybody tries to come here, at any time, we will be here. 48 00:04:59,917 --> 00:05:03,391 There is always someone here, regardless of time, if it's day or night or holiday. 49 00:05:03,617 --> 00:05:07,938 Our demands are that he pays our wages, health and pension contributions. 50 00:05:10,103 --> 00:05:18,283 The main aim of the older workers is to get their wages, health and pension contributions 51 00:05:19,127 --> 00:05:21,300 so that they can retire. 52 00:05:21,886 --> 00:05:27,995 More recent workers demand the continuation of production, to get back to their job. 53 00:05:28,589 --> 00:05:33,128 That are our demands. 54 00:05:33,658 --> 00:05:41,258 100,000 unemployed people are at the job center in Canton Tuzla. 55 00:05:41,648 --> 00:05:48,938 That is a huge number. I don't know how many people are employed. 56 00:05:49,525 --> 00:05:55,876 Half of the workers work on the black market. 57 00:05:57,681 --> 00:06:01,272 People must find a way to survive. What can they do? 58 00:06:04,042 --> 00:06:09,280 We must find a solution for that as well. Private owners are using this chaos. 59 00:06:09,824 --> 00:06:16,722 They hire young people unofficially.They pay them as much as they wish. 60 00:06:16,987 --> 00:06:28,181 There is no law to stop it. The majority of our children works on the black market. 61 00:06:28,466 --> 00:06:40,362 They work in bakeries, cafés, etc. Without health insurance or benefits. 62 00:06:40,709 --> 00:06:48,167 Class differences are huge. Some have too much, and some have nothing to eat. 63 00:06:49,130 --> 00:06:50,559 That brought us to this situation. 64 00:06:51,671 --> 00:06:58,617 There is no middle class in Tuzla and Bosnia-Herzegovina anymore. 65 00:06:59,919 --> 00:07:04,409 Nowadays, we just have just rich and poor people. 66 00:07:06,130 --> 00:07:12,054 Our only mistake was that we didn't rise up when the first factory in Tuzla was closed. 67 00:07:12,250 --> 00:07:19,200 If we were wrong, we wouldn't get support from Serbia or other countries. 68 00:07:19,468 --> 00:07:25,192 They are organizing solidarity protests for us in Belgrade. 69 00:07:25,512 --> 00:07:29,749 In Macedonia, in Montenegro, and Croatia, too. 70 00:07:30,180 --> 00:07:35,882 They are all supporting the workers and youth of Bosnia-Herzegovina. 71 00:07:36,468 --> 00:07:43,683 People in all Balkan countries support us and our struggle. 72 00:07:44,196 --> 00:07:49,599 What our young kids burned... 73 00:07:50,127 --> 00:07:55,684 These kids did what we were talking about for years among ourselves. 74 00:07:55,939 --> 00:08:02,716 That this is chaos. Something should be done. They should be burned. 75 00:08:03,052 --> 00:08:06,539 They call those kids hooligans. I think that they are the hooligans.