The strikers are also dissatisfied because security guards have been placed and checkpoints have been set up at the entrance to the Vecernji List building and because the employer has banned them from striking.

"In our worst nightmare we could not have expected the employer to react to our legitimate strike with security guards and checkpoints," a commissioner of the Croatian Journalists' Trade Union's branch for Vecernji List, Anton Filic, told reporters, adding that security asked Vecernji List employees, upon entering the building, if they were on strike.

Filic said he was satisfied with the turnout, adding that a vast majority of those permanently employed joined the strike. He said that the fact that the managing board would not allow them to strike at their jobs was a violation of the Labour Act, adding that strikers would call in the labour inspection and police and press charges against the employer.

Filic stressed Vecernji List journalists would be on strike until their demands are met, namely until the managing board signs a new collective agreement or prolong the application of the existing collective agreement and given up on drastic cuts of workers' rights.

The managing board of the Vecernji List daily said last evening that although legitimate, the strike was not legally justified, as it had been offered to the trade union to keep a large portion of material rights form the present collective agreement, regardless of the business losses the daily is faced with.

The managing board refuted union claims that it had terminated the collective agreement and drastically reduced workers’ rights. The managing board claims it is prepared to sign the agreement and that it offered to the union to keep a large portion of the acquired rights.