The agreed working minimum in the company “Jugoremedija”, was used by the co-owner of the factory “Jaka 80” merely to get even with other co-owners, demanding the cancellation of the sales contract with “Jaka”, because it violated the investigation obligation. Immediately after entering the factory, “Jaka” brought private security provoking conflicts with the small shareholders during the period of two weeks, and using one incident to beat up the workers on 19 August.

In the conflict where one co-owner leads a private army, the State took side of the stronger one. On 19 August, police faced the unarmed shareholders, while behind the back of the cordon “Jaka’s “ security were breaking into the warehouses of “Jugoremedija”. The police backup, emergency units from Belgrade, under the command of General Milivoje Mirkov, arrived and arrested three members of the Strike Board. Tomorrow, 26 workers and shareholders of “Jugoremedija” were dissmised by Director, and police detained the arrested stikers in the custody under the suspicion that they might influence the witneses.

Eighteen shareholders went on hunger strike, still going on, demanding that 26 workers should be returned to work. The others continuned the stirke in the factory canteen, tailed by armed security. At the same time, “Jaka” is violating the working minimum agreed with the small shareholders, and under suspension threat, summons the workers among the strikers whose engagement was not agreed, to substitute the colleagues who were in the agreed minimum.

The shareholders are suspecting that “Jugoremedija” is producing more drugs than agreed by the minimum, because the workers summoned to the factory work on jobs unnecessary for the minimum. The media in Serbia mostly reported lies regarding the true nature of the conflict. It was impossible to learn that the conflict in “Jugoremedija” was between co-owners, and small shareholders were regarded as former self-managers, followers of Staljin’s regime, inert, worshippers, while “Jaka” was reputed as the sole owner of the entire “Jugoremedija”, prohibited to enter property by the danagerous “elements”

Since the beginning of the institutionalization promissed by the present Government in the election campaign, merely the authority protecting private property of only one owner remained, namely the one surrounded by the private army.

If Mr. Jovica Stefanovic Nini, the owner of “Jaka”, wins “Jugoremedia” by fraud and force, and supported by authority, will he realize that the authority is obsolete and replacive by the private army?

Ms Verica Barac,
President of the Council