Croatian Shipyards to Be Privatized

six government﹣owned shipyards will be sold in croatia before 2009. a draft of a tender for the yards was drawn up by the ministry of economy ａnd the privatisation fund, fairplay reports. the list of the yard is the following: brodosplit in split, brodotrogir in trogir, kraljevica in kraljevica, maj in rijeka, uljanik in pula ａnd viktor lenac in martinscica, near rijeka. zvonko segvic, speaking for the independent union of workers at the largest yard in croatia, brodosplit, warned: "we will not accept this without there being a significant social aspect to the proposal.”
ozren matijasevic, the head of the croatian association of trade unions, voiced concern that jobs might be lost in a privatisation.
“the 10,000 employees at the shipyards throughout croatia will now be worried about keeping their jobs,” matijasevic added.
opposition leader ljubo jurcic ｆrom the social democratic party earlier warned that privatising the yards could endanger up to 42,000 jobs tied to the industry.