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BELGRADE (Reuters) - A Serbian union official who chopped off his finger and ate it in a protest over wages that in some cases have not been paid in years, said Monday he did it to show how desperate he and other workers were.
"We, the workers have nothing to eat, we had to seek some sort of alternative food and I gave them an example," Zoran Bulatovic told Reuters. "It hurt like hell."
Bulatovic, a union leader at the Raska Holding textile factory in Novi Pazar in southwest Serbia, used a hacksaw to cut off most of his left-hand little finger Friday.
Bulatovic said he decided to act after his deputy, "a single mother of three, was the first to say she would cut off her finger. I could not allow her to do that," he said.
State-owned Raska Holding was a major textile producer in the late 1980s with a workforce of 4,000. It suffered during the collapse of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and a loss of markets and mismanagement during a decade of wars and sanctions led to massive job cuts, leaving the company with just 100 workers.
Some employees have not been paid for years, only collecting social benefits, like free medical care.
About two dozen workers went on a 19-day hunger strike last year. They want the company's debt to be swapped for state-held equity and a welfare program for those nearing retirement.
Bulatovic said his comrades will not back down from their demands, but they will postpone planned self-mutilations at least until talks with government officials in Belgrade expected Tuesday.

I'm all about getting my point across but this is a little extreme.

 

Noone will tell him to stop point fingers anymore!!

 

Yeah; I'd cut someone else's finger off and eaten it.

 

[QUOTE=hamilton71801;2465601Bulatovic said his comrades will not back down from their demands, but they will postpone planned self-mutilations at least until talks with government officials in Belgrade expected Tuesday.
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Nothing like a little "OW!! That HURTS!!" to make you re-think your position of symbolic self-mutilation.

 

If the government officials gaff them off long enough ... the problem will just eat itself into silence

Cheers,
PISTOL

 

He cut off his little finger. Where is the commitment? I would think he was serious if he took the pointer finger or a thumb.

 

Heck, I would have paid him just to see him do it..

 

I wonder if he had any A1 to put on it

 

Naaahhhh .... you're supposed to use Ranch dressing for "finger foods" !!!

Cheers,
PISTOL

 

If you are going to cut off fingers to eat make sure you save the middle ones for last to show the world your intelligence level.

 

I thought that when companies were run by the government it was a worker's paradise?

I'm sure OUR government will do a much better job...

 

I hope so...I only have 10 fingers!!! I wonder what toes taste like?

 

How much meat on a pinky finger???? From feeling around mine not even a good bite. Be a man, take a bowie and cut out a calf muscle..........