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Mostar utility dismissals, hiring and political fallout

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In July 2026, the municipal utility JP Komunalno terminated the contracts of 22 Bosniak field workers. Mayor Mario Kordić and city council president Danijel Rahimić maintained the dismissals were based on work-related breaches rather than ethnicity, while the Trade Union of Communal Workers of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton alleged ethnic discrimination and procedural irregularities. Political tension escalated as Bakir Izetbegović, President of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA), met with the dismissed ~~workers. He pledged~~ workers, pledging to use all legal ~~and institutional~~ means to protect their ~~rights, warning that the actions of~~ rights. Amidst the ~~acting director and Mayor Kordić were worsening inter-ethnic tensions. In response to staffing shortages,~~ dispute, JP Komunalno launched a recruitment drive for 14 ~~positions, offering nine permanent and five temporary contracts. Amidst the dispute,~~ positions. Mayor Kordić announced individual meetings with the 22 dismissed employees to examine each case separately, stating, “svaka osoba će biti saslušana, a svaki će slučaj biti razmatran pojedinačno” (every person will be heard, and each case will be considered individually). ~~He also urged workers to report any pressure or manipulation.~~ By August 11, the JP Komunalno Supervisory Board decided to reinstate a portion of the dismissed workers. Kordić welcomed the move as a step toward stabilizing company relations, noting that several employees had provided written statements alleging they were coerced into signing documents refusing work orders. He called for a thorough investigation into these allegations of pressure and coercion. By late August, a group of dismissed workers began demanding reinstatement, alleging that the Supervisory Board failed to respond to their legal appeals by the August 24 deadline. The workers criticized the board’s president, Ivana Marić, citing her concurrent roles in the Mostar City Economy Service and the municipal administration employees’ union. They also noted that the board members' mandates had expired, prompting them to seek legal recourse through the courts.

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