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In Serbia, fewer people will die on construction sites when someone is sentenced to a severe prison sentence for the death of a worker, estimated the president of the Serbian Construction Workers’ Union, Sasa Torlakovic, on New Day on TV N1 . The president of United City Trade Unions “Nezavisnost”, Zoran Stojiljković, stated that injured workers in Serbia have become just statistics and that the system works for profit while people are in the background or in the background.
Torlakovic is, looking back the accident that occurred yesterday on Abardareva street near the RTS building, in which one person died and several were injured, he said that it seemed to him that those workers had been “sent to the slaughterhouse.”
“To have a bottle in a car and work like that, I have no words. The sender must respond. The Inspectorate has filed 40 criminal charges for such crimes against workers. I don’t see personal negligence on the part of the workers, someone told them: ‘They put the bottle in the car and Someone has to go to prison for 12 years for that, and once that happens in Serbia, the worker will no longer be a number. statistician, but a man who died on the job, “Torlakovic said.
He also claimed that in the first 11 months of this year, 39 workers died in the workplace in Serbia, of which 13 in construction, while in previous years, construction workers accounted for up to half of the workers who they died.
“We often forget to say that this year there were 707 serious injuries on the job. That’s 707 disabled workers! I agree that for many employers, profit is more important than workers, but we cannot put all employers in the same basket (…) There are many small wild works, small entrepreneurs, we hit the sixth level of subcontractors, the sixth level brings together people from the street whose first day of work is in construction, the day they die ”, warned Torlaković.
He pointed out that the workers of the new construction need at least six to twelve months to understand where they are, and that instead they are only obliged to sign a paper to be aware of all the measures and dangers, without having received any training, which, as you said, you only fill the form and it is provided by the employer.
Torlakovic also said that the Inspectorate is doing its job well “in this forest of undeclared work”, taking into account the amount of people and funds at its disposal, but that there is a deadlock in the courts that, instead of charging two, three or four billion dinars in fines, they collect 150 million each.
“I repeat, when someone goes into a serious prison because a worker died, there will not be this number of workers killed,” Torlakovic said.
Stojiljković assessed that solidarity was lost in society and that the dead workers became only combatants. We have about 50 workers killed during the year, and we will not see biographies, families behind (…) Especially in construction, where a good part of the workforce is hired for temporary and occasional jobs without full employment and conditions of guaranteed security. The problem is the lack of awareness, the logic of profit and the fact that there is no final determination of responsibility, ”he said.
He also evaluated that the system works in favor of profits, while people are on the second or third plan. As he warned, a number of employers are getting fingered and tarnishing the image of employers, and they also represent a kind of unfair competition.
“The effects are extremely problematic, because they are achieved with low quality and vulnerability of employees. A number of people have such low incomes that they have to supplement them with occasional jobs on the construction site. What you do is not proof that you are out of business. poverty, “he warned. Stojiljkovic.
He added that he was “a little disgusted”, as he put it, with the ideologically motivated marketing story about unemployment in Serbia. The decline in unemployment, Stojiljkovic explained, is the result of two factors, demographics and the economy, and Serbia has had a modest annual economic growth of around three percent in the last two decades, while, on the other hand, ” everything that can get out leaves this country. ” “.
Stojiljkovic also warned of the consequences of the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. He thinks that it is not good that state aid was distributed indiscriminately and that, before the elections, each voter of the Public Treasury was given 100 euros.
“You have spent some money, and now that you need blood, you have gone into debt a lot and you have to act more selectively,” he said.
He recalled that even the most liberal countries, due to the crisis, began to print money in an attempt to maintain production, because when less is earned, less is spent and therefore less is produced. In Serbia, on the other hand, there is no dialogue on the key issues on which life depends, Stojiljkovic warned.
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