03 июля 200909:27
Uralvagonzavod on brink of explosion, trade union warns
‘After Uralvagonzavod’s director cancelled temporarily most of the enterprise’s social benefits schemes, the situation grew dangerously near to a social explosion,’ head of Uralvagonzavod Scientific and Production Enterprise’s trade union Vladimir Krasnorutskov said to an UrBC reporter. As a matter of fact, the company’s managers announced at a workers’ meeting that 15,000 employees would be sent on forced leaves (with only 66% of their wages to be paid for the time being) and that all the social benefits would be called off. ‘Oleg Sienko refused to countermand the point regarding the social