Workers on hunger strike at a textile factory in Zagreb are continuing for the eighth day in a row, demanding five months of salaries.Despite not having received wages since May, the employees at the Kamensko factory are still coming to work because the company threatens to fire them otherwise, they say.This places the workers in a difficult position as the Centre for Social Welfare cannot give them short-term assistance as they are considered technically employed.The all-female workforce has received support from various segments of society, including students, veterans' associations and the centre for women's studies, which asked for a grace period for all the bills that the workers were not able to pay in these last few months.One of the union leaders Zeljko Segina said that the workers are desperate, that some of them do not have any source of income. According to Segina, the company owes them nine million kunas (1.23 million Euros), while it owes 3.4 million Euros to the state, the Croatian Radio Television Reports.
Source: Croatian Times Online News
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