Technical workers sue Pristina municipality

These workers are seeking to return under management of the Pristina municipality and pay 4 per cent, as promised by the mayor, Shpend Ahmeti.

Private Sector Union Chairman Yusuf Azemi in an interview for Kosova Prees has said the strike, warned about this week, has been cancelled because they have lawsuits for the municipality under way.

He warned strike at the moment when the presence of these workers in schools and health institutions will be extremely necessary.

“We have seen rationally the decision to strike next week to deal with the argument that the union has now only begun the judicial procedure against the municipality because the normal one that we have all the arguments for paying this issue ... we will go on strike at the moment when the people who have brought the situation up to this point are going to be dedicated to the most expensive one, we will find the day when it costs them the most expensive, and in some form we will work for workers to get on the strike to be as stable as”, Azem said.

Speaking of the state of technical school workers and Pristina medical centres, Azemi said they are being denied the right to receive the benefits the labour law gives them.

There's still a law that the law says and that's not yet being implemented as it is, working on weekends, working at parties means that I believe it must be improvised... The time has come to enter a four-percent strike... all documentations are signed that the Pristina municipality is tasked with signing the mayor of the municipality for the payment of 4 per cent, and all increases that will be in September 1st of this year task the Pristina municipality with as many workers as has been made in the public sector to become even among these employees<1>, the chief union Azemeti said.

Chief unionist Azem has accused the capital's first one, Shpend Ahmeti, that Pristina's problems have put them in second place and more are making political marketing.

This has started too much to do with politics and the basics that Pristina can unfortunately cost me seem to have put in second place, now I have seen a petition for the minimum wage and I think it's more a political marketing... first I have to clean up my own house, I have to take responsibility to these workers, then I have to ask for something else”, Azem said.

We remember that school technical workers and Pristina municipality medical centres prior to last week's municipality facility and that their frustrations have also been expressed through day-to-day strikes.