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Independent Trade Union In Barysau: People Work For Pin Money

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Independent Trade Union In Barysau: People Work For Pin Money
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Baysau dwellers have to work for $100.

A member of REP Trade Union Maryna Statkevich told praca-by.info, how the things stand in terms of job search in Barysau.

– There are about 40 industrial enterprises in Barysau. And almost all of them are in a worn-out condition. The level of wages is pitiful, – Maryna Statkevich said.

“In autumn I monitored vacancies list on the website of the district executive committee. Only 20% of them (about one hundred of vacant jobs) offered wages of about Br 5 million. People are mostly offered to work for Br2.5 – 3.5 million.

I was recently told by an acquaintance: his son could not find a job for a long time. And finally he went to the repair factory №140 as a forklift truck driver, with wages of Br2.3 million. It is about $100 – an unemployment benefit should be like that! People are working for peanuts, and it is very sad.

I had been working at an instrument-making plant as an engineer and mathematician. It was a flourishing and rich enterprise, performing arms contracts. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the plant survived somehow, but now former colleagues tell it is almost dead.

In general, in connection with industry degradation, now it is next to impossible to find a decent job in Barysau,” – the member of the REP trade union said.

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