1 00:00:01,246 --> 00:00:05,460 Good afternoon. You are watching "Razglednica" at the beginning we are going to Žitište. 2 00:00:05,794 --> 00:00:12,327 After workers agreed to let the bankruptcy trustee and the new owner to do inventory in the factory 3 00:00:12,793 --> 00:00:17,147 they came this afternoon, but together with strong police forces. 4 00:00:17,985 --> 00:00:23,458 Our colleague Jelena Pejački is there. Jelena what is going on at the moment in Agroživ? 5 00:00:24,165 --> 00:00:28,162 At the moment is being waited that the bankruptcy trustee and new owner leave the factory building. 6 00:00:28,496 --> 00:00:33,229 They went inside the factory with some other members of Agroživ to do inventory. 7 00:00:33,475 --> 00:00:38,983 The workers in strike are revolted by coming of the police, because there was no need for that. 8 00:00:39,214 --> 00:00:47,510 They already agreed with bankruptcy trustee and the owner to let them in for doing inventory. 9 00:00:47,783 --> 00:00:51,737 In front of the factory entrance came to jostle between police and workers. 10 00:00:52,436 --> 00:00:57,195 There was also lot of tears of women whose children work in the police 11 00:00:57,852 --> 00:01:01,282 They say that their own children have been sent against them, 12 00:01:01,591 --> 00:01:04,401 and they are just asking for that what they've honestly earned. 13 00:01:04,953 --> 00:01:08,734 Was anyone injured during the violent entering into the factory. 14 00:01:08,852 --> 00:01:16,867 No, there was no bigger incident. There was just pushing between heavy equipped policeman and workers 15 00:01:17,078 --> 00:01:19,391 but it didn't escalate into fight. 16 00:01:19,603 --> 00:01:21,603 What the workers say about the situation? 17 00:01:21,744 --> 00:01:26,208 You said it's been expected that the owner and trustee leave the factory building. 18 00:01:26,359 --> 00:01:28,993 What the workers say? Will they still stay in front of the factory? 19 00:01:29,119 --> 00:01:35,847 The workers will stay here until this so called commission finishes inventory and leaves the factory. 20 00:01:36,033 --> 00:01:39,502 They will than gather here again tomorrow at 6am. 21 00:01:39,766 --> 00:01:44,646 They will continue the strike, and they expect support to come around 8 or 9 pm 22 00:01:45,004 --> 00:01:48,575 from the local union "Nezavisnost" (Independence) and lawyers form Belgrade. 23 00:01:48,795 --> 00:01:52,242 and all activities will be continued tomorrow during the day. 24 00:01:53,030 --> 00:01:58,880 Thank you for the info. On the line was our colleague Jelena Pejački, live from Žitište. 25 00:01:59,156 --> 00:02:04,827 She was also this morning there and she spoke with workers of Agroživ 26 00:02:04,969 --> 00:02:08,792 Now, we will see the interviews from this morning, 27 00:02:08,954 --> 00:02:12,315 before the situation that we have just heard about happened. 28 00:02:15,064 --> 00:02:18,327 More than 1000 workers haven’t got their wages since beginning of the year. 29 00:02:18,525 --> 00:02:20,906 They started to strike on 19th May. 30 00:02:21,025 --> 00:02:25,164 But after many negotiations, they still haven't managed to charge their earned wages. 31 00:02:25,427 --> 00:02:29,792 We are ready to defend the factory whit our own bodies. 32 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:36,666 When our problems will be solved, we are ready to start to work under the new owner. 33 00:02:37,453 --> 00:02:42,557 They live very hard. The wages are not coming, so many of them are at the edge of existence. 34 00:02:42,986 --> 00:02:49,732 I am collecting the bottles from the containers now, to have some money to buy bread for my children. 35 00:02:50,135 --> 00:02:56,575 Everybodu here can confirm you that I have no electricity since February 36 00:02:56,752 --> 00:03:00,493 and I have to bathe in a washbowl. In the 21st century! 37 00:03:00,646 --> 00:03:04,852 Look at this people here. We are buying bread in the mornings, the cheap one 38 00:03:05,116 --> 00:03:12,823 and share a bites of it, because we have no money to buy something else. 39 00:03:13,162 --> 00:03:18,707 The new owner's private security tried to enter in to the factory, even to break into the building. 40 00:03:18,926 --> 00:03:20,926 But the workers stopped them. 41 00:03:21,077 --> 00:03:28,218 The person who should bring the new owner into the factory is the bankruptcy trustee of Agroživ. 42 00:03:28,476 --> 00:03:32,712 He is the one, who rented the factory to the owner. 43 00:03:33,037 --> 00:03:38,653 It can't be possible that someone comes into the factory at 4am. 44 00:03:38,933 --> 00:03:44,875 It caused the problems to all of us. And that could have had also a different epilogue. 45 00:03:45,336 --> 00:03:51,185 We tried to contact the owner, but he refused to talk with us before this situation will be solved. 46 00:03:51,545 --> 00:03:55,882 The director of the factory explained to us, that the solution is in a strategic partnership. 47 00:03:56,769 --> 00:04:03,626 Mr Ibraz has consent to lease and to buy the property that is in bankruptcy. 48 00:04:04,205 --> 00:04:11,466 That leads to the strategic partnership and solution for the up to 500 employees in the company. 49 00:04:11,726 --> 00:04:17,995 The strikers decided to let in to the factory only the new owner and bankruptcy trustee to do inventory. 50 00:04:18,865 --> 00:04:22,186 Starting from today the workers will not have health insurance any more. 51 00:04:22,345 --> 00:04:24,821 But they are determined to fight for their rights. 52 00:04:24,956 --> 00:04:30,730 They are afraid that the scenario from 2008, when they lost a part of their wages, could repeat.