Rifman Jasharaj: We'll sue Minister Iron Murati.

Jasharaj, who is also chairman of the BSPK strike Council, said they would not suspend the strike, but that they would do an analysis of the situation that is ruling through municipalities.

He said the level of strike is at the highest possible level.

The “We will do an analysis of the situation we have seen in the municipalities and key parts will be BSPK's reaction to the Ministry's statement and the steps BSPK will take to this trend, which is also unconstitutional and anti-legal, and which tends to intimidate and prevent union”, he said.

He has said he will use all legal steps for their right, since they are considering their right to strike has been violated.

The “Our fatherate is that even Kosovo lawyers have expressed themselves against that statement, of a secretary, and against this statement, and they have volunteered to take us in and do appropriate procedures and are not exempted from even the indictment. I'm sure it'll be... As head of the strike Council I will insist, I will beg my colleagues who are in the field to do this”, he said.

Although he said he cannot say when he is expected to hand over the indictment, he said he would sue Finance Minister Iron Mratin.

“I have conviction, even though I don't have the knowledge of this sphere, I have the conviction that the indictment will be addressed to Minister Murati, who yesterday before the media declared that threat to him and I believe that experts will have this address. So the indictment will be directly to Minister Murati, but it is left to experts to find the correct address. But because of the conversations I've heard with them, the indictment will be oriented towards Minister Murati. Because it was a preliminary statement across the Internet, of a secretary, whom we considered an emotional moment, but when the minister of the budget says so in front of the media, it shows that he is sincere and unconscious, perhaps, making a big mistake trying to narrow down the basic right of employees in the public sector and strikers”, he indicated.

Finance Minister Iron Murati said at a news conference Monday that the law, but also international practices and conventions, does not force the employer to pay workers for their time on strike.

“Practs and international conventions do not force the employer to pay the workers while on strike. I believe that both journalists and media, but even unionists can look at and find cases in Europe, such as Sweden, Norway, even France, Great Britain and Germany -- wherever the workers went on strike, strikers are covered by the union. Each union has contributions that it collects from its members and creates the fund for strikes. In this case, when it's decided to go on strike, workers are compensated by that fund for days that are out of work”, he has declared.