Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Serbia, Kragujevac (Photo: print screen/youtube)
A protest by workers of the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Serbia plant in Kragujevac scheduled for 10 am on May 26 has been postponed due to negotiations with Prime Minister Ana Brnabic announced for Monday, May 31.
The scheduled talks will involve the representatives of the factory’s three labor unions as well as the city mayor.
“We ask that the state not act as a mediator but rather as the co-owner of the company – in which it invests money – and to, accordingly, protect [its] workers i.e. its citizens,” it was said in a statement by the factory’s Independent Workers’ Union.
The protest was announced in reaction to Fiat’s new management refusing input from its employees regarding plans to temporarily export workers from Kragujevac abroad.
Workers were given two options: to spend the next two years laboring abroad in Slovakia, Romania, Italy or Germany – until the Kragujevac plant is ready to begin production of a new model of electric car – or to terminate employment with a benefits package.
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