“I will ask for that mandate again,” said Středula, saying that he intends to defend the position, as he says he feels support.
Středula faced doubts as to whether he was the rightful head of the union. According to the information of the diary lightning he did not pay his membership fees on time and thus lost his membership in the union – and thus also the chairman’s mandate.
Roman Ďurčo, the second of the ČMKOS vice-presidents, confirmed after the meeting that Středul’s membership had expired last year. “His membership has expired and we will deal with it on the 25th (March; editor’s note) at the Diet,” said Ďurčo.
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“If someone doesn’t pay for a long time, they drop out of the system and are de facto not a member,” he added to the non-payment of membership fees.
“There was a delay, it’s my sloppiness,” said Středula, adding that he is now a member of OS KOVO and has paid all his contributions. “I paid them all even before I received the letter from the basic organization,” said Středula, pointing to the letter about the termination of membership. According to him, the fees were returned to him. “It’s one percent of net income,” he said after Monday’s meeting when asked about the amount of fees.
Last December, the basic organization OS KOVO informed Středula that it had lost its membership due to non-payment of membership fees. For this reason, he subsequently could not perform the function of chairman and participate on behalf of the trade unions, for example, in tripartite meetings.
According to Samek, the extraordinary assembly should prevent any further speculation and prevent the trade unions from being discredited.
“There is no need to develop the case further,” claims Ďurčo, who heads the KOVO union. He didn’t even want to speculate how legitimate Středul’s participation in the last tripartite meeting was.
Středula has been the head of the trade union confederation, which has approximately 270,000 members, since April 2014.
Doubts about Středul. He was due to be expelled from the union in December for non-payment of dues
