About 200 workers of the Dina Petrokemija petrochemical plant in Omisalj on the island of Krk on Thursday staged an hour-long protest rally on the bridge connecting the island with the mainland to warn about their unbearable situation after they had not received salaries for several months.
The traffic along the bridge was thus blocked from 14 hrs to 15 hrs today.
The protesting workers spoke about being physically and mental exhausted while waiting for the payment of their nine months wages in arrears, and they also warned about a difficult state of affairs in the plant, which might cause a threat to the environment, given that there were 900 tonnes of chemicals in the Dina factory.
Although they planned to leave the factory unguarded on Friday, the disgruntled workers today decided that they would vote on this move next week.
The factory's union steward, Predrag Mihaljevic, said that desperate workers no longer believed in promises that their salaries would be paid on their accounts next week.
He said that the management board chairman Leo Dolezil, investors' representatives and relevant ministries should be shamed as they had failed to come to this protest.
Some of the protesting workers stressed that they were no more interested in the stories about the company's restructuring and they they only wanted to know when they would get their earned salaries as they had to pay bills and service loans.
