Novi Sindikat is a general-type labor union
that organizes workers in all sectors and
industries throughout Croatia.

  • Against increasing the daily quota for Deminers

    Working as a deminer means putting your life on the line every single day. The work is grueling and dangerous, requiring a high level of concentration to ensure personal safety and to make mine suspected areas safe for public use. However, deminers are under constant…

  • Revija Workers Await Government Call Surveillance Fears at Iskra Shipyard

    Novi sindikat, which has taken over the representation of former employees of the Šibenik textile factory Revija, is expecting an invitation this week from the Ministry of Physical Planning, Construction, and State Assets. The meeting is intended to address the remaining claims of 326 former…

  • Improving Conditions in the Textile Industry through Cooperation between Civil Society and Trade Unions

    Debts and layoffs of workers in the textile industry, along with exerting pressure on fashion brands, were the main topics of the meeting of the Croatian-Bosnian coalition of the international network Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), held last weekend (September 1 and 2) in Teslić, Bosnia…

  • Layoffs in Lipovljani

    Yesterday, Wednesday, September 21, Novi sindikat commissioner Vesna Adjam convened a workers’ assembly following the employer’s decision to declare 19 workers redundant. We requested that the management inform the staff about the company’s current situation and clarify whether there will be further layoffs. An employer…

  • Invitation to the Zagreb Holding Workers’ Assembly

    On October 5, 2023, Novi sindikat submitted a proposal to the employer for the establishment of a Works Council and the election of a Workers’ Commissioner for Occupational Safety within Zagreb Holding d.o.o. As the formal proposer, we are authorized to convene an assembly for…

  • Long-term protection of workers ‘ rights: collective bargaining in the age of artificial intelligence

    Long-term protection of workers ‘ rights: collective bargaining in the age of artificial intelligence.

  • In trade union practice, we encounter the problem of certain unions retaining members against their will by obstructing the resignation process. They may prevent workers from obtaining official resignation forms, or claim that no one is authorized to process their departure. In such cases, workers…

  • Regarding the salary increase at Podravka

    Together with Workers’ Front MP Katarina Peović, we warned on Friday that Podravka workers are working for miserable wages, barely above the minimum wage, while Martina Dalić and other Board members receive salaries between 15 and 20 thousand euros. “While workers toil for slightly more…