It just exploded.
The point it reached became obvious when riots broke out in all cities.
We started with peaceful protests. We've been protesting peacefully for three years.
Three years! We are protesting peacefully.
But those criminals don't understand the language of peaceful protest!
Dita started working in June 1977.
It was a state-owned company that worked until the war started.
Dita had about 700, 750 employees.
Then the war started.
After the war, we, the workers, bought the shares and became the majority owners of Dita.
Nationalism is a big problem. What matters is not if somebody is smart,
but to which nation this person belongs to.
We, the workers, are here from different nations, but we are all united.
We are not like politicians, who are divided by nations and political parties.
Politicians are dividing people, but in fact they all sit and drink together.
They just want to divide people. - Right. They want to divide us.
They party and drink together, and share the profits.
We didn't have health insurance.
They were not paying our health and pension contributions and nobody cared.
Then they stopped paying our wages. Then we got them once every three months.
Then we started to complain and to strike.
The union abandoned us. They were the first to abandon us.
They told us to stop complaining. That we would lose our jobs, etc.
We haven't got our wages for 27 months, our health and pension contributions for 52 months.
You can see our workers' IDs there. We are officially employed, but we get nothing.
That's why we say that we are not even lucky enough to go to the job center.
I want to tell you something funny. We hadn't got three or four salaries,
but the owner wanted to show he was a good man, and said he would lend us some money.
He felt sorry for us, because we were in such a difficult situation!
So he lended us 170KM (85€) per person to survive for a while.
He owned us money, but he lended some to us and asked to be payed back later!
We went on hunger strike, but it didn't help.
Then we went to the streets, to show the other people what was going on in this factory.
But this also happened in other factories, they just didn't have the courage to go out.
We were courageous enough to start this. And that brought us to the situation today.
I've been working here for 36 years. If they had payed my pension contributions regularly,
I would already have retired.
We've organized ourselves. We guard the factory in shifts 24/7 until they find a solution.
We are one of the shifts that guard the factory.
We thought about ways to fight for our rights and then we decided to guard the factory 24/7,
so they don't come and empty it. All the other factories around us
have been destroyed and emptied.
We guard our factory, and will see what will happen.
We must find our own ways to get food and transportation. Nobody cares about us.
Nobody asks if we need something. Nobody.
We have organized everything by ourselves. We have our shifts.
If anybody tries to come here, at any time, we will be here.
There is always someone here, regardless of time, if it's day or night or holiday.
Our demands are that he pays our wages, health and pension contributions.
The main aim of the older workers is to get their wages, health and pension contributions
so that they can retire.
More recent workers demand the continuation of production, to get back to their job.
That are our demands.
100,000 unemployed people are at the job center in Canton Tuzla.
That is a huge number. I don't know how many people are employed.
Half of the workers work on the black market.
People must find a way to survive. What can they do?
We must find a solution for that as well. Private owners are using this chaos.
They hire young people unofficially.They pay them as much as they wish.
There is no law to stop it. The majority of our children works on the black market.
They work in bakeries, cafés, etc. Without health insurance or benefits.
Class differences are huge. Some have too much, and some have nothing to eat.
That brought us to this situation.
There is no middle class in Tuzla and Bosnia-Herzegovina anymore.
Nowadays, we just have just rich and poor people.
Our only mistake was that we didn't rise up when the first factory in Tuzla was closed.
If we were wrong, we wouldn't get support from Serbia or other countries.
They are organizing solidarity protests for us in Belgrade.
In Macedonia, in Montenegro, and Croatia, too.
They are all supporting the workers and youth of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
People in all Balkan countries support us and our struggle.
What our young kids burned...
These kids did what we were talking about for years among ourselves.
That this is chaos. Something should be done. They should be burned.
They call those kids hooligans. I think that they are the hooligans.