Осврт на влијанието на економската криза врз материјално-социјалната положба на работниците во металната, електроиндустријата и рударството во Македонија
Review of the influence of economic crises to material and social position of the workers in metal industry, electro-industry and mining in Macedonia

Summary/Abstract: In Macedonia the global economic crises had most severe influence in the sectors Mining, quarrying and Manufacturing, and within the last, particularly in the manufacture of basic metals, production of parts for automobile industry, electro industry and manufacture of textiles. With the decrease of the level of industrial production, starting from October 2008, the employers decided to apply different measures for cost reduction among which: redundancies, “forced vacation” (or stand-by), decrease of negotiated pay, supplements and compensations, etc. Those measures couldn’t really contribute to the desired cost reduction, since the relatively low rate of labour costs in the total costs structure, but they contributed to worsening the material and social position of the workers. The global crises affected Macedonian economy in certain degree, but its influence towards worsening the material and social position of the workers and to diminishing their purchasing power certainly multiplies the overall consequences. In this review of the influence of economic crises to material and social position of the workers in metal industry, electro-industry and mining there is presentation of: • reduction of jobs in the mentioned industrial sectors/branches in the last 10 months; • social, public and economic consequences from the reduction of number of employees in this part of the real sector; • level of earnings of the workers in the same period; • purchasing power of average wage of the sector/branch. It is an empirical presentation based on (beside the official statistical data) findings and information gathered in the Trade Union of Industry, Energy and Mining of Macedonia, which organizes substantial number of employees in those sectors.

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