‘This Rezh-based nickel plant is a troubled enterprise, and its problems have a long history rooted in the fact that the production cost of nickel is actually higher than its market price. This plant is the surrounding town’s only employer, which is very important. The municipal authorities should pay special attention to the fact that there is a stoppage and that nearly 1,000 people need to find new jobs. The two-thirds of their wages that they get is not a bad thing at all, but something must be done right now, because, if the plant does not resume operating in two or three months, people will need new jobs. Action must be taken at once,’ Sverdlovsk Region Trade Union Federation told UrBC.

Now Rezhnickel was recently halted for an indefinite period of time.