One thousand and eight hundred employees of the “Nairit” plant have already received their full salaries. “It is promised that they would transfer the wages of the last 600 employees today. The government promised two-day period expires today, if the remittances are made today, there will be no other problems with wages. Now we are waiting, for example, on Friday, they closed up very late, it was after eight o’clock in the evening, yet there were no wages, the money was transferred to the accounts too late. Now, maybe the same thing will happen again, but they have promised that today is the last day and the issue should be closed up, we are expecting to be so”, said the employee of the “Nairit” plant, Anush Harutyunyan, to Aravot.am.
According to her, if it were not the united struggle of the Nairit employees, the solution of the problem would be extended for a longer time. “If we had not persistently proved that the government, however, is obligated to pay us, I do not think that we would be paid. Initially, the talk was going in another direction, they were saying that the owner have to pay us, they have nothing to do with it, but when we proved that the owner’s problems, first of all, arose with the permission of the government, it was followed by their willingness to meet the demand of covering the incurred debts. I think that if they had money, they would initially give it, simply they were reluctant to seek this money and our protest produced results. Over the last fifteen years, no one in the fight against the local authorities has succeeded, but today I state that the Nairit plant employees with their persistence managed to record a success in terms of the wages.
We hope that we will record a success in terms of the reopening of the plant. We will begin our struggle in this direction since September. Our actions will depend on the government practice, if we understand that they are actually leading “Nairit” to bankruptcy and closure, of course, there must be marches, sit-ins and various protest actions, but if we see that they are also doing constructive activities, looking for investors and they are trying to invest in to somehow solve the “Nairit” problem, we would only support”.
Arpine SIMONYAN
