ZAGREB, September 11, 2018 – Three banners were put up in Pula on Tuesday to “welcome” Istrian Democratic Party (IDS) office-holders ahead of a session of the town council and the Istria County Assembly convened to discuss the situation in and the prospects of the Uljanik shipyard.
The banners said “Uljanik won’t forgive you” and “IDS mafia” and on them were drawn the faces of Pula mayor Boris Miletić, who is the IDS leader, the strategic partner in the Uljanik shipbuilding group Danko Končar, Member of the European Parliament Ivan Jakovčić (IDS) and his associate Oriano Otočan.
“With this act, workers are doing a lot of damage. Such communication doesn’t benefit anyone,” Miletić said ahead of the joint session.
Uljanik workers said that with this act they wanted to show they were not stupid and that they knew some things concerning Uljanik and who was responsible for the current situation. “The main culprit is the management. We, the workers, know that, the law knows that, those in the management know that too, so let the whole public and the nation know it too,” they said, adding that the supervisory board was to blame too as it was supposed to control the management.
“All of Pula knows, so let it be known more widely too, that this management is actually an IDS management which was appointed by the leadership of this mafia party. There is evidence that Gianni Rossanda was a member of the IDS when he became chairman of the management board, as heard in the media recently. The other management board members are all friends and subjects of the IDS leadership. We repeat, we are not stupid and know well that the management and the IDS together stole billion from Uljanik, defrauding us workers who are having a hard time fighting for our salaries anyway,” the workers said in a press release.
It is incredible that the IDS is defending the management and itself, while blaming everyone else, from the workers to the government, they added.
