One worker died in the explosion in Krušik, another in serious condition – Društvo

Miroslav Mire Jovanović, a factory development engineer, who died during the firing of the “Maljutka” anti-tank missile, was killed this morning at the Krušik “Begova vode” depot in Valjevo.

Photo: Stanislav Milojković

In the same incident, an employee of MP “Krušika” of Main Technical Control was seriously injured and was taken to Valjevo hospital, where he was hospitalized.

Union warnings on workplace safety

The Defense Ministry confirmed that a worker of Krushik MJ was killed today, and that his colleague MP was injured during the performance of the work duties of Krushik Holding Company in a warhead at the “Bele Vode” training ground in the village of Zlatarić near Valjevo.

At the “Bele Vode” firing range, which is located five or six kilometers from Valjevo, on the road to Loznica, today, according to our diary, during the launch of the “Maljutka” rocket (used to destroy bunkers and other fortifications, and firing tanks) The mechanical engineer Miroslav Mire Jovanović, who, according to our sources in Krušik, was known as one of the leading experts in factory development, has died.

The Krusik unions say they have repeatedly demanded that safety and security measures be strengthened at work for employees at that factory. However, as they claim, there was no response.

The inspection of the Ministry of Defense and other competent bodies must determine the circumstances of today’s incident, with a fatal outcome, at the “Beg’s Waters” checkpoint.

New layoffs at the Valjevo military factory

As of today, the first working day in November, there are about 30 fewer workers on Krusik’s payroll.

In other words, many of them were “discharged” from the factory’s personnel service on the eve of last weekend, since their employment contracts were not extended.

At the end of September, some 20 workers lost their jobs at the Valjevo factory, those who had up to two years off until retirement, and will receive their pensions in the records of the National Employment Service, with the corresponding “apanage”, which This is not the case for 30 – so are their colleagues who are out of work today, as well as the 80 “gunsmiths” from Valjevo whose work contracts were not extended at the end of July and August, and most of whom, except for a few few who took over Gorenje, were left with “white bread”.

Some of them are known to “fold the sheets” and sue the factory, because they believe their employment contracts were terminated against applicable legal regulations, which, according to our sources at the Valjevo factory, it really was, And it is not impossible for some of redundant to return to the company.

In this regard, it is stated that the contracts were not extended to workers who spent more than two years in a job in the factory, which automatically acquires the legal right to establish a job … However, from the end of July until today , Krusik is out of work There are about 130 production workers left, and by the end of the year our newspaper will almost certainly release several dozen more laid off workers from that factory, with Krušik expected to enter next year with just under 3,000 employees.

Workers’ representatives say that “there are some criteria for firing those laid off, and that workers who are on long-term sick leave, those who violate labor discipline, as well as those who are caught drinking at work, mostly they are out of work. “

From July until today, spouses and single mothers have lost their jobs, against whom disciplinary charges have never been brought …

Recall that in Krušik, from the beginning of 2015 to the end of 2018, up to 2,000 new miners were employed.

According to the factory unions, most of them came to Krusik from Ub, Mionoica, Lajkovac and other places in western Serbia, which is politically controlled by the Chairman of the Executive Board of the Serbian Progressive Party, Darko Glisic, who is also the godfather of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

SNS activists were brought to the Valjevo factory from other parts of Serbia, from Nis, via Indjija to Bajina Basta. Trade unionists from Valjevo claim that “shepherds and greenhouse people” were brought to Krušik, via the SNS, who had not even seen the factory before.

As there was no suitable job for many of them, or they were practically unusable, most of the time they spent and spent their working hours in the cupboards and attics of the factories, which is why the old workers of Krušik gave them a collective nickname. : “attics”.

That army of newly hired and practically unnecessary workers, who caused damage to the factory with huge travel expenses, often “inflated”, and dubious business deals, that is, the sale of mines and other Krusik products to privileged arms dealers , the company GIM; Slobodan Tesic and the underpriced Abu Dhabi International Golden Group have seriously jeopardized Krusik’s business in recent years, whose debts and losses have reached tens of millions of euros.

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