Director of the Customs Administration is trying to silence syndicalists who warn of corruption

Jan 16, 2010 at 03:18 AM
  Letter dated 15 January 2010. year, which is the president of the Independent Trade Union customs officials Croatian Zeljko Popovic sent to the presidents of Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor, chief state prosecutor Mladen Bajic and the President of the National Anti-corruption Council Zeljko Jovanovic, independent unions in the Customs Administration have warned that the competent state institutions to the pressures that the latest director of the Customs Administration Mladen Barisic and Head of Customs Office Pula Dean Ivandić carried out to silence Customs employees who amount to evidence of public corruption and crime in the Customs Service "Notifying, the Croatian Government, the State Attorneys Office and other competent authorities against the head of the Customs Office Pula, Dean Ivandića, which attempt to monitor the work of the Union and thus tries to restrict trade union action of its representatives, the President of the Independent Union of Croatian customs officers and trade union commissioner, warned the unions.

Responsible person in the Customs are trying to prevent the testimony of their illegal actions 

As the earlier tried to his predecessors, friends, relatives and political associates, all possible and impossible ways, doing various pressures to prevent membership in the union, but officials vrbujući to iščlane, shifting illegal and unfounded disciplinary actions against members, promising liberation of disciplinary or other responsibilities and the like, if you leave the union, in cooperation with the Director of Customs Administration, Mladen Barisic, this is a serious threat not only elements of the crime, but it goes back to more important and this is an attempt to put pressure on the limitation and monitoring of the trade union movement representatives NSCH, which is forbidden by law even in the attempt.

Union letter neatly superior officer in the customs office, years of reports, namely 14 years of my union work, the absence from work as a union trustee or president is absent, and is going to attend union meetings, courses, training, seminars, congresses and conferences, both in country and abroad, in accordance with Art. 90. Collective agreement for civil servants (OG 93/08). The same action above and attempt to unilaterally interpreting certain article, the Commission for interpretation and monitoring of the Collective Agreement, in which the work of the Independent Union of Croatian customs officers do not participate, the decision of the unknown Prime Minister and the unions, which are however more numerous in membership, but that does not give them any right to benefits or greater importance, but using such one-sided and subjective interpretation for people who are only and exclusively in the role of trade union commissioner, but at the same time union representatives, trying to pressure, which in the background of this is their true goal, which is disable independent trade union activity and thus can prevent the testimony of the same illegal practices in the earlier period stated in his letter to Zeljko Popovic

Disabling the right to union organizing and action 

Unions and their representatives to drink the same rights, in accordance with international conventions, treaties, the European Social Charter, regulations and collective agreements, they are in principle equal, but obviously certain subjects, certain representatives of the employer is not liable, because of political bias, hidden objectives and activities that out of the scope of public administration and customs service, and such procedures and methods of trying to pressure the union and its members, and the ultimate goal of completely disable its effect.
  How can I find at the same time as union representatives, and president of the Union, the person authorized to represent all members of the union function of the Commissioner, for the possibility of consuming the rights provided for the rights of union trustees, defined the provisions of the Labor Law (NN 149/09) and the Collective Agreement, then it is my role, not only union meeting convened in the home union, but undisturbed orally or in writing convene and participate in union meetings, work and cooperate with all organizations, institutions, establishments, progonskim bodies, lawyers and others with whom we cooperate on issues of consumption or violations of workers and civil service rights, trade unions in all directions, create and participate in the promotion of workers rights and participate in social dialogue, all in accordance with the law of Art. 89 of the Collective Agreement, on the basis of international treaties and conventions on the work, which is the Republic of Croatia has signed and ratified, said the Independent Union of Croatian customs officers.

Responsibility of the Director of Customs Administration Mladen Barišiæa

As director of the Customs Administration, Mladen Barisic, their actions and omissions has been personally responsible for prevent free trade union activity, especially one that is as independent of the employer, then the pressure on the union, we are able to consume and other rights under the Collective Agreement, it does not We must publicly show our members and provide them access to the employer, because of frequent exercise pressures on the officers, our members, we can not provide the number of our members, because they do not want to appoint, due to possible negative consequences for them personally, taught on the basis of negative experiences and pressures in previous multi-year period of union activity.
  Mladen Barisic also not only trying to prevent union activity independent trade unionists, but prevents the enforcement of occupational safety in the Customs Administration, which is regulated by law, collective agreement and the Regulations on Protection at Work in the Ministry of Finance, Customs Administration, which is the same as Chairman of the Committee of safety at work in the Customs Administration, which his intentional actions, misuse of position and authority, and other unlawful activities, prevents the work, does not convene a regular session of the Committee every three months, not carried out other required measures and procedures previđenih laws and regulations, and such behavior prevents the system functioning at all, although we have to repeatedly warned not to take anything concrete and allow the operation of safety at work, and it happens in continuity since 2005. , when appointed to the position Director CURH, the letter to the Independent Union of Croatian customs officials from 15 January 2010. year

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The fact that I myself properly, and now reported in writing to a superior officer about the absence from work is going to union meetings, which are constantly working ever since to engage union job, which lasts for 14 years, a rash reaction of desperate, head of Dean Ivandića is undeniable proof in a letter that was submitted, the customs office Pula, kl.: 023-01/10-01/2 and ur number: 513-02-4499/2-10-4 of 15 January 2010. year (proof; attached), which requires the notification of absence from work is going to call the union and which should be delivered only when I am calling on the union trustees meeting as president of the Union, and that commissioners would then justified absence. 

  The union has decided, as do others and the rule applies to other unions, the president of the Union will not provide any calls for a union meeting that he held with other bodies, legal entities, associations, unions, lawyers and others, because then a certain and can be exercised unauthorized work on the operation and activities of trade unions, as is frequently trying years in the previous period. 

  The organization of such meetings, the president and the union representative responsible only to his home association or trade union, not the employer.

Indisputable fact is, I repeat that the union president and commissioner, duly appears and informs the employer, but 14 years of absence from work in order to maintain trade union meetings and other obligations.

  This all is also evidence that the same colors of our free and independent trade union activity in the current period, the potential of our testimony and our activities related to the outcome of corruptive nepotističkog ball in the Customs Administration, at the time of the Republic of Croatia has accepted the general principles of the fight against corruption as the most important task, including the fight against those most dangerous, political corruption on the basis of nepotism, which is dangerous, because it operates in systems from the inside, as it is in the Croatian Customs Service of the Republic, a serious and detrimental impact on the work of executive bodies, as well as the development of civil society, development of Croatian, which will ensure all citizens, especially the equality and equal rights to all the success, not just some, as is the rule now, Popovic describes the reasons for Customs Administration front end people are trying to prevent the pressure effect of the Independent Croatian Trade Unions publican.

 

Mladen Barisic violates the rules of the Declaration of the World Customs Organization

But what is far more important here, where the union will insist, and where I will personally seek protection and seek to raspetljaju to put it mildly, irregularities in the customs administration and customs, which have accumulated actions immoral leader, where the union must use all legal permitted ways and wisdom, to defend against illegitimate pressures, illegal actions, the leaders of the body, Director and Head of the Customs Administration Customs Office Pula, which not only are in the same political party, but the meeting on matters outside the jurisdiction of Customs.
  In order to protect union officials and union members from the onslaught of crime and well-organized formal and informal groups that serve the party infrastructure and customs system, which is headed by a director of the Customs Administration, Mladen Barisic, who is also a member of the central committee of a political party HDZ , where the entire hierarchy of contributors, political minded, Manager subordinate to the political or nepotističkoj suitability, to protect our members, we had to resort to naplaćivanju and collecting union dues direct payments officer members at the expense of the union, and not through customs, because running and detection payments, lists of members, the employer has insight into who is a member of the union, then it is used and exercised various pressures on members, and running illegal potencirajući disciplinary procedures, shifting officers to months of work to other remote customs stations and more than 50 km from the place of residence , moving illegal union trustees, removal from položajnih places and attempt to transfer the union commissioner položajnih places, harassment and discrimination against degradation, for which we have numerous proofs and applications are located in the Administrative Inspection, Department of Ethics, a former Central Office of Civil Administration, Police, chief state prosecutor, allocated, the Government Office for Social Partnership, the Office for Human Rights, the Ombudsman, Parliamentary Committee for Combating Corruption, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, parliamentary representatives, other international bodies and institutions, all with the same and only one aim activity and unauthorized pressures on our members leaving and turning out union, prevent the existence and operation of Independent Croatian Trade Union customs officials.
  All investigations by the police and DO spend on this, simply evaporated, although there are many witnesses and written evidence.
  Mladen Barisic as a member of the central committee of a political party and the Director of Customs administration, directly violated the Declaration of laundry blue World Customs Organization, Art. 8th (NN 14/03 MU) to warn a hundred years, because the subjective, immediate and direct impact made on admission, advancement officers, and how such policies and configuration mixing in the work and activities of essential body of executive power, the Customs Service of Croatian.
  We looked and we seek the dismissal of the Director of Customs Administration, Mr. Mladen Barišiæa and its political and nepotističkih postavljenika, which he set, and used illicit role and position, which severely violated the autonomy and independence of this vital body of executive power, said Popovic. 

Director of the Customs Administration organized a coup within the Croatian Customs Union 

Basest treatment director of the Customs Administration, is causing shock to the union, where the same convene a special union trustees, where the deliberately induced by the Assembly of CSH, even 2006th year, only nine days later with the new president of CSH not only withdrew a complaint with the Zagreb Municipal Court, he filed a union to demand ništavosti employer decisions about hiring new employees, where the same shall not advised the union prior to decisions not, put the employment impact of new employees at existing sites, for the period of employment of the respondent 2000.te year until 2004. year, but Mladen Barisic pay court costs incurred tuženjem and pulling the union complaint, which the union has evidence.
  Me as unions, who warned of the crime, set by the political cadres and nepotističkoj eligibility ucjenjivao discriminated against and deprived of access to long-term job or position, before and permanent dismissal, because I was still back in 1993rd as head of CI Požane, in cooperation with the Slovenian police, but others found smuggling 40 tons of coffee, and where the perpetrator was a former publican Denis Grabar in collaboration with the smugglers, which we will again ask raspetljavanja the whole case, as well as cases Assistant Director Customs Administration, the Head of Service to combat smuggling, Mr Robert Matijevic, who found a warehouse of illegal imported goods, 200 tons of coffee in Zagreb, then 1.7 million pieces of original stamp with the same serial number RCG for cigarettes in the hallway, Rovinj Tobacco Factory, and smuggling of crude oil and petroleum products in Posavina, and other illegal activities of organized corruption brojnog staff who participated and skillfully covered up to this kind of thing out in public.
  We apologize for the length of the letter, but I just can not be formatted to display the content of all pressures, spoof, professional restrictions in the service, try disabling the trade union action and everything else that is done by me and the union for years reduced to a small letter.
  Not if the Croatian Government, as well as other competent bodies shall take measures against subjective political director and his political successors, who persistently attempt to prevent the work and activities of trade unions, then we will be forced on this event and others, inform the International Labor Organization, the European Commission, the U.S. State Secretariat, the Council of Europe and other organizations that deal with the protection of human and civil rights, the right to union organizing and action.
  The deadline for taking action against these is compliant with art. 95. Collective agreement, then we will not if we get a satisfactory answer and if no measures are taken against those responsible, submit an application to international organizations, institutions and bodies, because it is more impossible to tolerate the pressures on the union and freely trade union action, "concluded the Independent Croatian customs officers union.