Brnabic: Fiat workers chose the streets instead of negotiations

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Prime Minister Ana Brnabic says that Fiat workers in Kragujevac decided to take to the streets and organize protests instead of continuing negotiations with the government, and told them that they could always contact her to continue the talks, but not through the media.

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"I'm here, they know where I am, I'm here for them, day, night, weekend, whatever... I don't see what they are looking for on the street instead of in the government," Brnabic told journalists during the opening of the University of Belgrade's Implantology Center.

She said that Fiat workers did not wait for the process of applying for work abroad to be completed.

"We want the workers to be satisfied, to provide for those families, but before the application process was complete they came out and said that negotiations with the government were over. I cannot force anyone to talk and negotiate," the prime minister said, reports Tanjug.

Asked what workers can expect when it comes to severance pay, the prime minister said that it was a matter of conversation, but not a conversation through the media.

She noted that the workers took to the streets and said that the negotiations had failed.

"They want to take to the streets more than to come to the government to talk. They literally left negotiations that were in progress," Brnabic pointed out.

Some dissatisfied Fiat workers held a two-hour protest yesterday, blocking the Kragujevac-Kraljevo highway. The protest came after the deadline for workers to register for work in Slovakia expired.

(Telegraf.rs)