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Yesterday, a collective agreement was officially signed at the Goethe-Institut Zagreb. The agreement secures a salary increase and additional income benefits for the workers. We consider the signing of this agreement a major success, particularly as collective agreements are almost non-existent in similar cultural and…
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After 18 months of fighting, campaigning with the Clean Clothes Campaign international network, and numerous meetings, press conferences, and protests, Orljava workers have won their severance pay. At its session on March 2, the Croatian Government made a formal decision to pay severance to 237…
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On Monday, March 13, a new collective agreement was concluded for the workers of the Calligaris furniture company in Ravna Gora. For many years, the contracted wages for the lowest-paid groups of workers at Calligaris were below the legal minimum. As a result, several of…
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While in recent years we followed the more and more numerous and faster chasing platform deliverymen and taxi drivers through domestic streets, every new conversation with the workers and each text made it increasingly clear that the Croatian version of the platform “revolution” would prove to…
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By decision of the Executive Board of Novi sindikat, a new trade union branch has been officially established within Zagreb’s Čistoća. This decision follows a significant surge in new memberships. Pavao Barbarić has been appointed as the Chief Trade Union Commissioner for the branch.
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At a press conference held today at St. Mark’s Square at 10:00 AM, representatives of Novi sindikat and Katarina Peović (representative of the Workers’ Front) spoke out against the ongoing lawlessness within digital platform operations in Croatia. Mario Iveković, President of Novi sindikat, informed the…
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Today in Croatia, the Protocol on Collective Bargaining was signed with the Croatian Employers’ Association, officially marking the start of negotiations for a sectoral collective agreement for workers employed in the wood and paper industries. In addition to the protocol, an agreement was reached to…
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Croatia is among the first countries to attempt to regulate the status of digital platform workers through the recent amendments to the Labor Act. Based on our knowledge and the experiences shared by the workers themselves, the legal solutions currently adopted in the Labor Act…
Orljava Employees Protest at St. Mark’s Square
So far, the government has not responded to a single letter from the New Union and has not taken any action regarding severance pay.
Revija Employees Announce Protest
Former employees of the Šibenik-based Revija magazine are not giving up on their claims for unpaid wages and severance pay and will protest in September at St. Mark’s Square in Zagreb if the government does not invite them to the requested meeting, representatives of the New Union announced on Tuesday in Šibenik..
The digital platform observatory is a joint initiative of ETUC, IRES and ASTREES, funded by the European Commission. It brings together trade unionists, experts, activists, specialists of workers representation and collective action in the platform economy.
