Yugoslav Restaurant Staffs May Strike
Workers in state restaurants in Communist Yugoslavia have threatened to go on strike to protest against economic reforms that have allowed the private catering sector to mushroom.
“The current tax system stimulates private cafes, and their owners are really living it up,” Rade Petkovic, director of the state-owned Belgrade restaurant Madera, was quoted as saying in the Belgrade newspaper Vecernje Novosti.
“State-owned restaurants are severely handicapped by . . . tax obligations, and if nothing changes soon most of them will be closed in four or five years,” he said.
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