Nairit Protest: Disgruntled chemical plant workers demand back wages
News | 04.09.14 | 12:06
Several hundred workers of Armenia’s large idling chemical plant again
gathered near the government building in Yerevan on Thursday morning
demanding that their back wages be paid. The protesters said the plant
owes them salaries for 18 months. Among the demands of the Nairit
workers is also that the plant be re-operated.
Energy Minister Yervand Zakharyan tried to talk to the protesters
before joining the weekly government session, but the Nairit workers
reportedly met him with booing and whistling and demanded a meeting
with Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan.
Still, Zakharyan promised that some kind of solution to the issue of
the plant’s future would be offered before September 15 and that
salaries for one month would be paid.
This is not the first time Nairit workers stage protests near
government offices. Apart from demanding their back wages they also
want clarity on the future of the sole chloroprene rubber producer in
the entire post-Soviet space that has been idling for the past three
years. More than half of Nairit’s 2,700 employees have been on
furlough, awaiting resumption of production.
Nairit workers met with Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan during a
similar protest near the government building as recently as in July.
Abrahamyan then said that the issue was “at the stage of examination”.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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