Croatia - Unions call off general strike - November 25, 2010

Public sector unions have called off a series of actions that could have led to a general strike on 10 December. The unions were demanding a referendum on trade union and employment rights but have now got the agreement from Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor that a referendum will be held that would reduce the threshold of signatures required to call a referendum from 450,000 to 200,000. This will be on the same day as the referendum on joining the European Union (See also this Collective Bargaining Newsletter Year 3 June, July-August and October 2010).

English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/390;
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-24/croatia-general-strike-canceled ...;

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-17/croatia-s-united-unions-threaten ... 

This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2010.