From: "mart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [pttp] Fw: AT LEAST 800,000 SERBS WILL LOSE JOBS, SAYS WORLD BANK ADVISER From: Jim Yarker Sendin' this one out to the Sontag's, Hitchens's, Ignatieffs, Gitlins, Scahills, Healyites, "Maoists," "N"GO's, "Greens", to "Anti-Racist" Action, to the editorial boards of The Nation, Zmag, InTheseTimes, Mother Jones, etc etc. They couldn't have done it without you. Really, there are just so many people to thank. jy AT LEAST 800,000 SERBS WILL LOSE JOBS, SAYS WORLD BANK ADVISER BELGRADE, Jan 24 (Tanjug) - World Bank (WB) adviser Arvo Cuddo said on Thursday about 800,000 people would become unemployed in the course of the ownership transformation of public and social companies in Serbia over next few years, and the figure could be even higher if one also takes into account the privatization of companies with mixed capital. The authorities will find themselves in an explosive social situation over the dismissals of the excess work force and that is why the reform process must be implemented gradually, Cuddo told an international conference on the strategy of trade unions in the reform processes, which is under way in Belgrade. Cuddo warned that in the process of dismissing the surplus work force, the Serbian government must take care of their compensation.Furthermore, it must engage trade unions and other interest groups and NGOs in the negotiations on job cuts, he said. Serbia has good starting positions for carrying out reforms, he said, but if it wishes to implement them successfully, it must establish good cooperation between trade unions and employers. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
