Fiat workers protest on highway in Belgrade: Gazela Bridge blocked

Photo: Tanjug/Jadranka Ilic

Due to the protest of the workers from the Fiat plant in Kragujevac, a highway through Belgrade was blocked today.

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Convoys of vehicles are standing on both sides of the highway, and the point of the blockade is near the Sava Center venue.

Workers, dissatisfied with the social program offered to them, came to Belgrade in buses and cars.

They decided to stop the traffic on the Gazela Bridge, which they did at around 1:20 pm.

Foto: Tanjug/Jadranka Ilić

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said earlier 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.

"I am here, they know where I am, I am here for them, day, night, weekend, whatever... I do not see what they are looking for in the street instead of in the government," Brnabic said while answering a journalist's question at the opening of the Implantation Center of the Faculty of Dentistry in Belgrade.

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 completed, they came out and said that the negotiations with the government were over. I cannot force anyone to talk and negotiate," the prime minister stated, reports Tanjug.

(Telegraf.rs)