The narrative of the alleged "struggle for workers' rights" and concern for passengers, propagated in public by unionist Miroslav Babović, is nothing more than a cheap performance to protect private privileges, idleness, and open obstruction, unfortunately not for the first time in the Railway Transport of Montenegro (ŽPCG).
The narrative of the alleged "struggle for workers' rights" and concern for passengers, propagated in public by unionist Miroslav Babović, is nothing more than a cheap performance to protect private privileges, idleness, and open obstruction, unfortunately not for the first time in the Railway Transport of Montenegro (ŽPCG).
It is fascinating to watch how a part of the Union led by Babović fights against the introduction of online ticket sales using prehistoric methods of obstruction, spreading panic, and media lamentation. Instead of helping employees master new technologies and catch up with modern railway standards, they would rather see us return to typewriters, paper forms, and counters from the last century. For them, a computer is a bogeyman, automation a threat, and any attempt to introduce order and automatic ticket control is declared a failure. The resistance to online tickets is not a concern for passengers, but a panicked fear of transparency in which there is no room for their manipulations.
However, the answer to the question of why the Union has become so agitated about the introduction of the new IT system does not lie in concern for passengers, but in protecting the privileged in the IT sector – Neda and Mladen Stanojević. This duo has been operating for years by a well-tested recipe: as soon as things get tough in the company, as soon as accountability, professionalism is demanded, or the introduction of order is initiated, they promptly and en masse go on sick leave. To make matters worse and subject to serious legal liability, they have taken and alienated equipment owned by ŽPCG, leaving the system in distress with the obvious intention of causing a collapse and then blaming Management for it.
It is shocking, but also shameful, that the Union led by Babović does not fight for the workers who sweat profusely in their uniforms during the summer heat, but instead acts as a private agency to protect its members. Instead of condemning the alienation of company property, unjustified sick leaves, and deliberate work blockades, Babović attacks the company that is trying to put a stop to this shameless arbitrariness. A clear question arises - since when has union struggle been reduced to defending those who sabotage their own company by taking equipment home and going on sick leave?
When they realised that blackmail within the company no longer works and that digitalisation cannot be stopped by old union threats, media artillery was also involved. Unverified, one-sided, and half-true information is being launched. The goal is clear: to create the illusion of disintegration in ŽPCG, scare the public, and exert pressure on Management so that abuses by IT actors and their union protectors are not investigated.
This is no longer a story about software or tickets, but a stark truth about how a small group of individuals, covered by union badges and familial-media connections, has been holding the entire company and its honest workers hostage for years. Passengers want a ticket at a click, they want fast and orderly transport, not outdated union soap operas and a fight against computers. Instead of disseminating commissioned articles through the media and defending the indefensible, it is time for the actors of this witch hunt to finally account for the alienated equipment, abuses, and damage they consciously inflict on the Railway.
The prices of tickets purchased by passengers online are the prices from ŽPCG Passenger Tariff and there are no anomalies or irregularities. There is also a Guide for purchasing train tickets on the website https://www.tickets-zpcg.me/me/uputstvo (Useful links) where the entire process is explained in detail.