The circulation of trains in Kosovo has been interrupted this morning, as public company workers dealt with infracos) have entered the strike, demanding growth and wage indexing, as well as improving working conditions.
The strike has started at 8:00 p.m. and has included the entire territory of Kosovo, causing the suspension of Pristina railway line and vice versa.
Infrako Union Chairman Hysen Nikqi has declared that the strike decision has been made following the company’s lack of reaction to workers’ demands and management.
According to him, the union had organised a warning protest two weeks earlier in order to draw the attention of responsible institutions, but their demands have not received concrete answers.
This is the first stage of the strike. We have not wanted to organize it, but we have been forced, since our righteous and legal demands have not received any answers, Nikqi has declared.
He has warned that cutting the railway services will continue until the company’s board makes a written official decision to address the requirements.
No service, no circulation, not today, not tomorrow, but only changes the board’s decision. If they make a decision and we have a written decision, not just words, then the Council organises and ends the strike, he stressed.
The workers’ main demand remains to index salaries, while they also require increased compensation for the market and reform payment for the past three months.
Union member Ekrem Tahiri has said the strike is the result of failing to address workers’ problems by company management.
He has also criticised the current amount of compensation for food, stressing that 2.50 euros are insufficient for a worker performing an eight-hour shift.
Besides indexing, it’s a shush increase. Considering that a worker today comes to serve in eight hours here and with 2 and a half euros to spend one day, I don’t know how much that man can be in service, Tahiri has declared.
Meanwhile, the company-Trainkos) has announced travellers to cut off railway transport, seek understanding and let the services be resumed once conditions for operation are created.
The workers’ strike was warned on October 26th, during the organised protest in front of the railway station in Fushe-Kosovo.
In addition to the wage issue, workers seek better conditions and higher security at the workplace, while warning they will not withdraw from the strikes without receiving a concrete response from the governing bodies.
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