In order to support the Šinvoz workers’ struggle, please sign this letter and send it to the following 5 addresses:

jzivanovic@predsednik.rs, predsednikvladesrbije@gov.rs, muprs@mup.gov.rs, pismo@freedomfight.net, info@pokret.net

* Boris Tadić, President of the Republic of Serbia,
* Mirko Cvetković, Prime minister of the Government of Serbia,
* Ivica Dačić, Minister of Interior

Dear Sir / Madam:

I am writing to you in regards to information I received (link) regarding the privatization and bankruptcy of Zrenjanin's factory Šinvoz, and the destiny of over 600 worker-shareholders who were employed in the company before the bankruptcy. 

Since December 2007 Šinvoz workers have been protesting because they lost their property and their jobs after: (1) the majority owner Nebojša Ivković deliberately placed the company in a state of bankruptcy, but also (2) because the Privatization Agency behaved in a drastically irresponsible and illegal way. These facts have been established by the Anti-Corruption Council of the Government of Serbia, and by the  Inquiry Board into Šinvoz established by Zrenjanin’s City Council. Still, the Prosecutors’ Office and the Economic Court are ignoring these findings, while the Privatization Agency and the Ministry of Economy are denying the facts by taking no actions whatsoever to repair the consequences of their misconduct.

I am asking you and your institution to do everything in your power to protect the worker-shareholders of Šinvoz's rights to work and to private property, to prevent the robbery of this factory and the destitution of over 600 families in a city already devastated by the economic transition.  

Seeing that your government strives to establish democracy in Serbia I am sure that you realize that the protection of the fundamental rights of worker-shareholders is central to the success of democratic reforms. A country that only respects the interests of the rich and not the rights of other citizens cannot become a free country but only a land of slaves.

Yours truly,