Strike at Footwear Factory “Red October” 15:25, 08/12/2006
Having received their pay slips, workers of “Red October” (“Chyrvony Kastrychnik”) shoe factory saw that their salaries for the last month have reduced at about Br 100,000. It was the main reason for today’s strike, Radio Svaboda informs. Workers complain about bad working conditions: they do not have a lunch break; sometimes they have to work on weekends.
Strikers told that workers of a private enterprise “Marka” situated nearby get much higher salaries, though their working schedules and work assignments are the same.
Cutters wrote their demands in a letter to the director of the enterprise “Red October” and informed the administration about the hunger strike. However none of the administration representatives went to them.
A deputy engineering manager Larysa Vojush said to journalists that the director is out of town. She refused to confirm that workers are on a strike. She said that the women have a usual break. Mrs. Vojush tried to charge journalists with violation of a pass control and asked guards who had allowed the journalists to enter the premises of the enterprise. Besides, Mrs. Vojush ordred to find out who had informed the mass media about the hunger strike.
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