IN NOVGOROD, WORKERS BY STRIKES HAVE
ACHIEVED THEIR DEMANDS
At the beginning of the twentieth
of June, employees of a local road maintenance company announced a
strike.
By the time the protest began, workers had not
received a salary even in April. They are owed by the enterprise
"Novgorodgorodtodor" and its contractors. After it became
known about the strike, the workers were paid a large part of the
detained money.
THE STRIKE BY
BUILDERS IN THE ROSTOV REGION
From June 14 to June 19, a
strike by more than 300 workers employed at a nuclear power plant in
the city of Volgodonsk continued. People refused to leave their
portacabins onto the territory of the construction site and start
their duties.
The reason for the protest was the issuance
of earnings for April in an extremely reduced amount. Usually, in
addition to the salary of 7600 rubles, the workers are paid a bonus,
and in general it is 35-50 thousand per month. But last month they
were paid only a salary, and some received 1,5 thousand rubles,
others - four, someone - eight. The head of the construction company
Chernenko blatantly and cynically told the builders that "you
have not earned enough to get more." This was the last straw,
and a strike began.
STRIKE IN GORKY
(NIZHNY NOVGOROD)
At the beginning of the second half of
June, the employees of the Strizh train did not come to work in
protest at the late delivery of salaries and the absence of
vacation.
Four shifts of rolling stock cleaners took part
in the strike, totaling over 60 people.
On May 31, the
organization in which they worked again was replaced. Previous
"employers" owe people a salary for May, as well as
compensation for holidays for several months.
IN THE SVERDLOVSK
REGION, A MASS MEETING OF EMPLOYEES OF THE MINING AND PROCESSING
ENTERPRISE TOOK PLACE
ON June 27 in the city of Kachkanar
about a thousand workers attended a large-scale protest. Employees
of the local mining and processing plant at the rally demanded to
stop the cuts and return the work to the already laid-off people. The
organizer of the protest action was the trade union committee of the
enterprise.
People are concerned about the decrease in the
number of employees at the plant in recent years, as well as
information about upcoming events aimed at reducing the number of
employees.
The resolution adopted at the meeting stated
that in two years the number of jobs at the town-forming enterprise
decreased by about 650 people. At the same time, the production
volumes reached a maximum for the whole period of the enterprise's
operation. "Such large-scale reductions can not be explained
either by the modernization of production or the improvement of
technology. As a result, there is a shortage of jobs in production,
and as a result an unreasonable increase in the intensification of
labour of workers, "the document says. Thus, the capitalists who
own the combine raise the rate of surplus-value and their profits at
the expense of the increasing exploitation of the workers.
IN
NOVGOROD, ANOTHER PROTEST WAS HELD AGAINST THE ANTI-UNION ACTIVITIES
OF THE AUTHORITIES OF THE WELL-KNOWN FOOD CHAIN NETWORK
On
June 17, a rally took place, in which over 40 activists took part.
They opposed the anti-union policy pursued by the heads of the chain
of stores "Magnit" in Novgorod.
Since the last
rally in support of an independent trade union organization, the
administration has not changed its actions with regard to uniting
workers. Trade union members continue to be intimidated, to apply
improper disciplinary sanctions to them and to try to dismiss them.
The authorities continue to exert pressure on the trade unionists
known to them. Attempts are made to substitute workers, find fault
with the performance of their work duties, the norms of labour
protection and, under this pretext, get rid of them.
The
trade union of the chain of stores from the autumn of last year
regularly organizes protest actions. Its activists demand to stop
pressure on the workers who joined the trade union.
