Amkodor worker: “I'm afraid the plant may collapse in two years”

Amkodor plant begins to work four days a week and pay workers two-thirds of the 1 class salary (8,000 rubles an hour) beginning from July.

Rumours are circulating at the plant that a three-day working week can be introduced.

A worker of Amkodor says to prace-by.info about the deteriorating situation at the plant.

– Amkodor had worked four days a week from April to June. We worked Fridays with the payment of two-thirds of the 1 class salary. In July, the plant works four days, but Fridays are not paid. Managers are preparing to introduce a three-day working week, otherwise all recent changes make no sense. We suppose that we will receive only two-thirds of the salary on Thursdays. Such rumours have been circulating at the plant for a long time.

– How did shorter working weeks influence your wages?

– Wages fell. We have staff cuts, but the information is not made public. You can be fired for the smallest error even if you are a single mother or a mother with many children, let alone a man. Managers can agree to prolong your employment agreement only if your supervisor defends you.

The plant doesn't have money. Wages were delayed last month. We are to receive wages by the 18th day of every month, but we got them only in the third decade.

The average wage was 2.5 million rubles in June. This is official data. To calculate it, they even took into account wages of managers, some of whom receive 30 million. Workers have 2.8 million, but some have less then 2 million rubles. People received 3.7 million when they worked full weeks. The average wage in the assembly shop was 3-5 million rubles.

– How many people do work at the plant?

– I cannot say the total number of employees at the plant, but only 13 out of 40 workers still work in the assembly shop. The staff was cut by half.

– What do workers say? How do they plan to survive?

– People don't want to lose their job. The number of vacancies reduced 2.5-fold. No one protests. All are afraid that their agreements won't be prolonged. The latest decree allows this opportunity.

– How do managers explain the catastrophic situation at the plant?

– We don't have sales. Our products were sold mainly in Russia.

– What do they say about the future?

– Light at the end of the tunnel will appear only in two or three years. But if the current situation is not changed (the plant has huge loans it takes to pay wages, and a debt for engines), we will collapse in two years or sooner.

Managers do not cut the managerial staff. They dismiss workers. Now every worker has a boss.