Ferries remain unmanned, 72 workers do not accept fixed-term contracts

The problems in operating the Kamenari-Lepetane ferry line have not stopped since the state entrusted the work to JP Morsko dobro, although with the purchase of the fleet of "Marine Transport", eight vessels are now enough, the Novski portal announced.
The workers who serve the ferries today addressed the media, because the new employer "doesn't hear them" and, as they say, "they were tricked." He offers them fixed-term contracts, even though they have been promised permanent employment. As they told the media, they were made to know that if they didn't want to sign them, they should go home.
72 of them agreed that they would not sign fixed-term contracts, and now 91 workers have been hired.
Aleksandar Crvenko, on behalf of the employees, says that the only solution is to continue working with an indefinite contract.
The biggest problem is the contracts, because we were promised that we would get them permanently, back in May, then in June. We got to July only to be offered contracts until September. People are revolted, tricked, deceived and won't sign. We will continue to work until our contracts expire - says Aleksandar Crvenko, Novski portal reports.
They talked to the representatives of Morski Dobr, but they claim that they were tricked every time.
This was the last frontier. We don't want to sign a contract for two months. We are looking for what we were promised from the start, a permanent contract. Especially for the people who came from "Marine Transport" from the first day and quit their jobs there, and had permanent contracts. They believed in their story, but also in mine, which I told them, and they quit their jobs, so that this company could get back on its feet, and this is how they repay them - says Crvenko.
Ticket agents, controllers, ferry crew members will continue to work until their short-term contracts expire, which is until the end of the month. If the management of JP "Morsko dobro" does not change course towards them, it is certain that the ferry service may be stopped again, this time in the peak season.
M.J.