Good afternoon. You are watching "Razglednica" at the beginning we are going to Žitište.
After workers agreed to let the bankruptcy trustee and the new owner to do inventory in the factory
they came this afternoon, but together with strong police forces.
Our colleague Jelena Pejački is there. Jelena what is going on at the moment in Agroživ?
At the moment is being waited that the bankruptcy trustee and new owner leave the factory building.
They went inside the factory with some other members of Agroživ to do inventory.
The workers in strike are revolted by coming of the police, because there was no need for that.
They already agreed with bankruptcy trustee and the owner to let them in for doing inventory.
In front of the factory entrance came to jostle between police and workers.
There was also lot of tears of women whose children work in the police
They say that their own children have been sent against them,
and they are just asking for that what they've honestly earned.
Was anyone injured during the violent entering into the factory.
No, there was no bigger incident. There was just pushing between heavy equipped policeman and workers
but it didn't escalate into fight.
What the workers say about the situation?
You said it's been expected that the owner and trustee leave the factory building.
What the workers say? Will they still stay in front of the factory?
The workers will stay here until this so called commission finishes inventory and leaves the factory.
They will than gather here again tomorrow at 6am.
They will continue the strike, and they expect support to come around 8 or 9 pm
from the local union "Nezavisnost" (Independence) and lawyers form Belgrade.
and all activities will be continued tomorrow during the day.
Thank you for the info. On the line was our colleague Jelena Pejački, live from Žitište.
She was also this morning there and she spoke with workers of Agroživ
Now, we will see the interviews from this morning,
before the situation that we have just heard about happened.
More than 1000 workers haven’t got their wages since beginning of the year.
They started to strike on 19th May.
But after many negotiations, they still haven't managed to charge their earned wages.
We are ready to defend the factory whit our own bodies.
When our problems will be solved, we are ready to start to work under the new owner.
They live very hard. The wages are not coming, so many of them are at the edge of existence.
I am collecting the bottles from the containers now, to have some money to buy bread for my children.
Everybodu here can confirm you that I have no electricity since February
and I have to bathe in a washbowl. In the 21st century!
Look at this people here. We are buying bread in the mornings, the cheap one
and share a bites of it, because we have no money to buy something else.
The new owner's private security tried to enter in to the factory, even to break into the building.
But the workers stopped them.
The person who should bring the new owner into the factory is the bankruptcy trustee of Agroživ.
He is the one, who rented the factory to the owner.
It can't be possible that someone comes into the factory at 4am.
It caused the problems to all of us. And that could have had also a different epilogue.
We tried to contact the owner, but he refused to talk with us before this situation will be solved.
The director of the factory explained to us, that the solution is in a strategic partnership.
Mr Ibraz has consent to lease and to buy the property that is in bankruptcy.
That leads to the strategic partnership and solution for the up to 500 employees in the company.
The strikers decided to let in to the factory only the new owner and bankruptcy trustee to do inventory.
Starting from today the workers will not have health insurance any more.
But they are determined to fight for their rights.
They are afraid that the scenario from 2008, when they lost a part of their wages, could repeat.