Pavićević, who has been removed from the position of SOKCG President at the end of September, claims that he will not accept the Executive Board's decision on exclusion and points out that session minutes were not sent to the member in order for them to know the identity of 13 people who voted for that decision.
He said he had asked for all 1,600 SOKC members to declare regarding this issue and that it has been done by several hundred colleagues up until yesterday.
On this sample, he claims, 90 percent of the employees are against his dismissal and Deputy Zorica Deretic from the Trade union.
The new acting SOKC President Nebojša Radonjić did not want to answer regarding the events in that working organization, pointing out that it is currently "time for work, not for statements".
Pavićević told "Vijesti" that at the end of September, with 30 votes from the 54 present delegates he was removed from the position of the president without a single argument.
1.600 members to declare on his exclusion: Pavićević PHOTO: Boris Pejović
He argues that afterward no minutes of the Assembly’s session has been delivered and no reasons for the shift of the president, as well as the biography of the acting person, have been given so that the members would know who will represent them in the future. "During the campaigns that colleagues had been conducting for the last half of the year, one of the thesis was that management does not want to negotiate with me and that when I am dismissed, the new common employment agreement will be immediately adopted. It was to be expected that at the session of the Executive Committee, the main point would be the increase in earnings."
Former President SOKC and current president of the Union Trade in Health said that on November 15th last year they presented a proposal for a collective management contract and asked for feedback within two weeks.
"As the feedback has not been received until February this year, I said at the Executive Committee that we should not allow such ignorance and announce a possible strike. Subsequently, in March, we held a session of the Assembly, which, before we came to the point on the Collective Agreement, part of the members of the sports section and their close associates left."
Pavićević said the sports coordinator asked for 13,000 euros for sports meetings, and that the monitoring committee found that in the past they spent too much (17,000) and estimated that in the year of savings this amount should be 6,000.
"This proposal did not pass, followed by a request of 9,000 euros. No such proposal has passed, so some members of the sports section left the session, so we did not have a quorum for a collective agreement bargaining.
"Pavićević emphasized that an initiative for holding an extraordinary assembly was submitted in April, with the agenda of the 'voting about the confidence to the president'. He said the session was held on May 18th, and that the majority of the signatories of the initiative left the session, with "rather unpleasant scenes", allegedly estimating they did not have the majority. Pavićević said that since then the members of the Assembly continue to lobby for his dismissal. "After the April session, I sent a letter to all members of the Assembly to declare whether employees in their work units support the launch of all the activities envisaged by law, so that a new collective agreement, which envisages wage increases, will come into effect. Almost half of the members of the Assembly boycotted this process. I have also sent letters to the representatives who constantly criticized the work of SOKC leadership and the president, to hold meetings in their working units and in front of employees to express all their comments and arguments, which they refused to do."
Pavićević said he had remarked the work of the Commission for Rest and Recreation, whose president, current acting president of SOKC Nebojsa Radonjić, did not want to submit lists of employees who were granted the right to vacation. "I thought all employees should know who used the right to vacation, all in order to make every employee use that right." Pavićević, who was head of SOKC for 11 years, claims that during this period, earnings of employees increased by 107 percent and that more than 100,000 euros of non-refundable aid and almost half a million euros of union loans were distributed.
Pavićević said that the housing issue, through the activities of the housing cooperative "Health", was solved for 139 employees of the Clinical Center. "They said that I was enormously enriched by working in the Trade Union, that I had several apartments, that the Housing Cooperative was doing its business irregularly and that I had arbitrarily shared the apartments to whomever I wanted to."
Pavićević pointed out that he then sent a letter to all employees, listing all the colleagues who got the right to purchase the apartment under favorable conditions, as well as the basis for the realization of that right. He also claims that someone "skilfully falsified" the letter, that is, added the names of employees who are not even members of a housing cooperative. Pavićević said that they have “submitted” a bill of EUR 16,866, to the new acting director, EUR 1,365 to the trade union’s register and between EUR 30 and 40,000 which are a loan to employees, and which will be returned to the bank account.
Text by Ana Komatina, on October 29th, 2018, read more at Vijesti
