`NAIRIT’ EMPLOYEES PROTESTING
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02-11-2004
‘Nairit’ hasn’t run for 6 months. Factory was stopped in June for
re-equipment and re-functioning a few days later but it
didn’t. Theemployees of the factory anxious for the fate of it have
today held a protest action and demanded for their salaries of 2
recent months and the debt frozen.
‘Trade and Economic Development Minister Karen Chshmarityan announced
from Parliament rostrum that Kirov debt had been settled but we don’t
have money for bread. We haven’t been paid to the old debt. Moreover,
the new leadership doesn ‘t pay salary of 2 recent months’, factory
employee Alexan Margaryan said at the conversation with us.
He informed that the employees are resolute. `90% of the staff sitsat
home. We neither work, nor get money. Court refused to accept our
application reasoning the administration has settled the
issue. Salaries are frozen. Government doesn’t hear our voices. But we
will insist on our demand’,they say.
Mr. Margaryan is also anxious for the fate of the factory. He says
because of the debt of a few million drams electricity supply for the
factory had been ceased the day before since 11:00 AM whereas to
provide safety of chloroprene it is necessary to keep it cold for 24
hours.
‘1 million drams are spent daily to keep chlorine. The whole raw
materials may spoil because of cutting electricity supply once, not
even mentioning the ecological danger’, Margaryan says.
Fortunately, last midnight electricity supply was restored but for a
week only until the matter is somehow regulated.
Tomorrow `Nairit’ staff will march to Government building and then to
Presidential Residence demanding to solve `Nairit’ problems.