Executive Director of AGROKOR met with CTUBIH representatives
Imidiatelly after the big media campaigne against PPDIVUT, initiated by CTUBIH, the top menagement from Zagreb asked for urgent meeting in Sarajevo. Today, Mr. Mate Greganić,Executive Director of AGROKOR, head of HR Departement met with Azra Šehbajrakatrević,Mersiha Beširović and Fikret Plvičić in CTUBIH office in Sarajevo.
Mr. Greganić has greated CTUBIH in behalf of Mr. Todorić,the owner of AGROKOR and thanked for the support that CTUBIH offered when AGROKOR has bought former VF COmmerce BIH. He informed that the top menagement of AGROKOR is very sensitive when it comes to the social and workers issues and confirmed the will of the owners to create the positive working atmosfere in the comapny.
On of the main issues were of course problem that CTUBIH has with PPIDIVUT in this company. Mr. Greganić confirmed that owners or menagement will not interfere in the union metters and will support the free will of the workers to join the unions they trust. He fully supported democratic methods of organizing with application forms signed by each worker and promise that will not tolerate the issuing of membership cards withouth written aproval by the worker. The menagement of the company call for mutual agreement to be found in order to make workers interests to be heard and respected and CTUBIH promissed that will give its best to support the positive working atmosfere. CTUBIH is not afraid of competition. It is garanty of continuing success for our members but we will not tolerate the presure and the well known methods of PPIDUVT when it comes to organizing.
CTUBIH will work in the best interest of the company too. The prosperity and development of KONZUM means good and regular salaries for our members and we will do our best to make the developemnt of this company joint effort of social partners. The success of the meeting today gives us hope and basis for future initiatives and activities that will benefit our members and the company as such.
We use this opportunity to thank our dear and good friend Ana Knežević,president of Confederation of TUs in Croatia who helped us to get the respective partenr on the same table. We also want to thank our members in KONZUM withouth whose information we would not be able to act fast and on the right way. We hope that also in the future the trust and confidence they gave us would be our joint strainght and the driving force of our cooperation