Yury Rubtsou: They want us to adapt and obey criminal traditions

An activist from Homel speaks about a shocking incident at Gomelvodokanal company.

“It happened in 2004, when companies began to introduce employment agreements,” Yury Rubtsou said to praca-by.info. “It was the apogee of the regime. Almost all people became slaves. By the way, many understand it. The incident that shocked me happened six months after employment agreements were introduced.

Workers were talking, and our boss came to us. He said to one of the workers: “Tomorrow is Friday, you must take you daughter to a bathhouse to wash my back.” The worker answered: “I can't hear you. Can you repeat?” The boss repeated, and the worker hit him in his jaw.

How do you think, who continued to work? Of course, it was the boss. The employment agreement with the worker was not prolonged.”

Yury Rubtsou says a boss can make his employees do whatever he wants.

“Most people in the country have to work temporarily,” he says. “They have a job as long as they obey their boss. But there are bosses who make people work for them and their homes.

By the way, judges, who also have employment contracts, are dependent on the authorities.

I am a member of the Electronics Trade Union. I refused to join it in 2004. I was in the commission that was preparing the collective employment agreement in 2005. Other commission members wanted the agreement to be applied only to members of the pro-governmental trade union. I quit the trade union as a sign of protest. They stopped paying me some bonuses. I made them resume paying bonuses through a court, which took 18 months. The company then began to pay them to all employees, even if they were not members of the pro-governmental trade union.

They want us to adapt and obey criminal traditions. I don't like it.”

On October 6, Homel-based activist Yury Rubtsou was found guilty of insulting a judge (article 391 of the Criminal Code). He was sentenced to 2.5 years in an open-type correctional facility. The term was reduced by one year due to the amnesty. Yury Rubtsou appealed against the court decision on October 16.