Letter from the daughter of a DTR worker on strike

Dear, can you express your support for the DTR workers in any way? They are hungry, miserable and humiliated. They haven't seen their salaries for months, and now the director has, for the umpteenth time, only given salaries to a portion of the workers in order to make them quarrel among themselves. Please go to them tomorrow morning at around 9 am, they will come to the store on Ilica. I asked the media yesterday and today via e-mail to support them, but I guess the journalists can see that there is no bread there. Everyone has taken over CA and HŽ, and my mother is hungry. Please, if you can, come tomorrow with the journalists in front of Ilica. Thank you. ps. Let me introduce you to the situation! My mother is not a flight attendant, but my mother is also on strike. My mother has worked at DTR for over 30 years. At first glance, you would say - "Well, she got a good anniversary gift!!!" But my mom didn't get a jubilee award (she did get a court order, but as if that means anything in this country), my mom hasn't even received a salary for the last few months. Sorry, I said salary, I meant minimum wage. Yesterday the director told them... that he paid their salary. But there's only a big minus on her account that Linić will clear as soon as possible. Admittedly, some of her colleagues' salaries have "sat down". Their management wants to do it that way from time to time... I guess to make them fight among themselves. That's how a worker's head understands it. An entrepreneur would say - "Look at those disgruntled fools, the man barely saved up so he paid some of them, the rest will get the same as soon as he collects the rest." My mom doesn't have money for utilities, bread, coffee, a haircut, or even new sandals. She goes on strike in front of the management every day, but she doesn't even have a ticket, so she smuggles. The management used to be located together with the production in Mandlova Street in Zagreb's Dubrava, but the attractive land was sold, and the management moved to the center. The production has moved to Brckovljane, although they have organized transportation, but God forbid, if a woman has to leave early because, for example, her child is sick, that woman can't afford a bus ticket. Sad but true. Maybe they should ask the bus driver to be so kind as to send the bill to the Management. The DTR Management has decided not to pay their salaries, because today's workers should probably fall into a trance of happiness because someone only keeps them registered with them. My mother and the other DTR workers are women who are silenced every time they ask for their hard-earned salaries. These are workers who meet unrealistic standards and work unpaid overtime. These are workers who are accused of driving the company into ruin with their strike, because there is work, there just needs to be work. So I ask you, Trogrlić, if there is work, and if she has worked so far, where is my mother's salary??? Where is the transportation? And I'm really curious if you also pay her pension contributions? The management made a statement the other day that DTR workers were paid Christmas bonuses, Easter bonuses and holiday pay last year. How strange, my mom didn't see those payments. But you paid everything fairly, didn't you? And so in the 21st century, in a future EU member state, my mom doesn't live, she doesn't survive. She doesn't even make a living, she just breathes. The days go by...no one cares. Even when she goes on strike, she's a second-class citizen. Every day there's news about CA and HŽ, but not about my mom. My mom isn't a freelance artist so she gets funding from the city. My mom isn't even a social case because my dad has a pension of 1,800.00 kuna, so he and my sister, according to the census, at least on paper, are not in need. My mom doesn't receive a salary for her work...which is totally strange, because her work record says she's employed by DTR. This way, a person could get confused and think she's a volunteer. I don't know, I don't know, it's very strange to me for a country where institutions do their job. But I guess the workers' head can't understand that. If I could, then I would be the prime minister or minister or at least run a company where my workers would volunteer as well. Thanks to my mother and people like her, DTR has been in business for 99 years. Yesterday, a business partner from Germany came to DTR. I hope the management explained to him that they run their business honestly, get jobs, but the workers won't work. He's bothered by the recession, he's bothered by unreasonable workers. It's really easier to be a worker these days than a director or a boss. We're only bothered by whether our salaries will drop, and you care about a hundred other things. The company needs to be maintained. And it would be okay if they agreed to work without pay, right? But what are you going to do, my directors, they don't understand that. Maybe if they had a better salary, a regular salary, maybe they would work on themselves, enroll in some study or an English language course. You directors are really out of luck. The workers are a typical example of an unrealistic, inflexible Croatian worker who is just waiting to combine holidays. Granted, my mom can only combine them if the Management decides to do so, she doesn't care... she's not going anywhere. But no, they're really stubborn about that minimum wage, man, it's a shame! And what now? Nothing. That's all, let it be known? Let it be known that Milanović is not ashamed to be prime minister in the 21st century in a country where workers are starving. Thank God, everything is being done according to the law. The pre-bankruptcy settlement has been initiated. The institutions are doing their job. What's more, there's no salary, and my God. When they passed the laws, they didn't remember that people have to live on something!!! Milanović and Josipović, do you know that your workers are starving? Trogrlić, when will salaries and transportation be? Opačićko, why can't workers without salaries receive social assistance? Greetings to all DTR workers. You are women, mothers, queens. Don't give up your salaries. PS I hereby ask the media to go to the DTR Board and ask the DTR workers how they live and do they understand Plan 21? Zoki said yesterday that those who don't understand will never understand or something like that. I guess he was thinking of them too, because they don't understand. If they were fed up, maybe they would understand.