How does Serbia solve litigations regarding ownership rights? 

By allowing one party to bring the other one to starvation, thus turning the ownership litigation into a irrelevant matter for one has to struggle for its daily existence. In May this year, the Ministry of Agriculture instructed the Share Fund to cancel the contract on the sale of ‘’Jugoremedija’’ shares. The Share Fund, however, did not follow the instruction. The Ministry takes no actions regarding the fulfillment of its decision. The workers – shareholders of the company “Jugoremedija” did not receive the salary more then half a year, from the moment they went on strike in pursue of effectuation of their property rights. Today they fight to get their jobs back, for they were illegally dismissed on account of the participation in a legitimate strike. The Labor Inspection instructed the director to give them their jobs back, nevertheless, he chose not to honor such an instruction. The inspection is playing innocent, they will, so they say, do everything possible – charge “Jugoremedija” with 20 000 dinars for each decision which was not carried out. Now, small shareholders, who were thrown to the street due to the arrogance of the director, pay penalties because the director refuses to give them their job back – yet another nonsense deriving from the non existence of the state. The shareholders last appearance in Belgrade was on 7 and 8 October, when Ministry of Labor promised to confirm the decisions of the Labor Inspection. It took them three weeks to write the decision, allegedly the printer was not in order, and copy center was on strike…

Finally, the week before the last they sent the decisions, which, moreover, up today did not reach Zrenjanin. The Ministry, the Inspection, Post office, no one knows how this happened.

How does Serbia solve labor litigations? By creating a mess, and forcing everybody to chase the missing mail somewhere between Belgrade and Zrenjanin?

How else does Serbia solve litigations regarding ownership rights? With the help of the police, but the one dealing with industrial crime, which did not solve any case known to the public, but not with the help of a repressive apparatus which protects one owner, and the Government from the bitterness of the other, resented by injustice. This was the case of the company “Jugoremedija”, and it was obvious that it was becoming a standard procedure when the small shareholders, former workers and pensioners from the company “C market” protested in front of the Government. There were more police officers then the shareholders. On the next day, Mr. Radulovic revealed the true state in Serbia – the shareholders – former workers asking for the right to control their private property, and the shareholders – present workers, whose job is in the hands of Mr. Radulovic, who can dismiss them without having any objections from the Ministry, the Inspection, and the Post office, organize a protest in opposition to themselves and their former colleagues, and in favor of Mr. Radulovic.

And one can not blame them, for the persistence of Jugoremedija shareholders in the anti – corruption struggle showed explicitly where the anti – corruption struggle ends in Serbia – in the street.

Ms Verica Barac,
President of the Council