YUGOSLAVIA: MORE LABOR UNREST

Created: 5/14/1987

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Morn strikes hava broken out in Yugoslavia this week, dimming hopes that the settlementrotracted sink? by miners on Monday would ease the country's laborocal fade union leaders.are move, organized on* of the strikeseal packing plant bn Zagreb, according lo press reports. Unlike tho wave of work stoppages In March, the new strikes have been confinedroatia and Involveew firms- Although wages are at tho heart ot the disputes, workers have increasingly boon raHMnciconcerTis about financial mismanagement and job 3ccu".ty'"J y

mMWJBWMJlabor unrest is likely to Increase because dissatisfaction oveTwage restrictions remains high and because the authorities haveough stand on wage increases. Concerns about job security will sharpen tensions If Belgradeew bankruptcy law by closing Insolvent firms. The strike In Zagreb Is unusual in that It is being organized by ain Yugoslavia are usuallymay portendji ma|or challenge to Belgrade's authority.