KEK workers have held a protest today in front of management offices and the corporate Steering Board in Pristina, in recognition of wages and working conditions.

They warned that the protest will be held again today a week, at the same hour and place, not excluding the strike as well.

KEK Workers’ Union Chairman Xhelal Jashari said they seek dialogue with the management to solve workers’ problems.

The labor class’s wish is to go on strike. We tell them we’re not kidding. We tell you that we’re asking for charity, we tell you, sit down, dialogue and solve these problems one by one, because we’ve got a knife in the bone, we’re tired of waiting for the possession of management.

Jashari said that if Economy Minister Artane Rizvanolli does not meet with the KEK employee union, then Kosovo will be in the dark.

We’ll all get together, without unity there’s no results. I strongly believe, today we will address Minister Artane Rizvanolli at the request for a meeting. If there is no meeting, the entire Kosovo will be in the dark, he said.

KEK Workers Union deputy head Nedmi Llumnica said that through this protest they are expressing their frustrations.

We’re here to express frustration. When we hear the relocation of budget means for 120m euros, 30m euros for public enterprises, they are not disappointed. What does it mean to take money from us and give to others, to their own house?

While Ali Gashi, chairman of the Independent Trade Union of Kosovo Administration, has called KEK workers’ demands rights.

Today I have not come to express solidarity, I have come to raise my voice for your work, your sacrifice, and the injustices you face every day, Gashi said. / KP/