The situation for workers at Uljanik that still didn’t receive their wages is getting harder by the day. Many workers of the shipbuilding company have been working without pay for eight months now and organised several strikes in demand of their wages (see our February 2019 newsletter). The trade union urges the government that is co-owner of the shipyard, to take accountability and come forward with a solution. It is still not clear if Uljanik will go bankrupt or will be saved. Economy Minister Darko Horvat said that executives of the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation would visit Uljanik Group explore possibilities for cooperation and that after that they would hold meetings with the Croatia side.
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