Rally on 05 May in Samara
On 13 May, the Kuibyshev (Samara) Bolsheviks (AUCPB N.A. Andreeva) together with the local branch of the RKRP held a rally in support of the workers of the Samara Passenger Transport Enterprise (PAT), the managemnent of which are trying to throw out to the street without a severance pay. Also, the rally was timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, an outstanding figure in the world communist movement.
The situation with the workers we reported earlier in our press and in our groups. The situation has not changed much today. About three hundred workers of the PAT are still without work and without wages, and they have nothing to work on. The buses are either liquidated or handed over to private traders.
At the rally, activists of the AUCPB and the RKKP, workers of the passenger motor transport enterprise, as well as several other leftist and communist organizations and parties that were united with them, spoke. Everyone expressed the idea that it was time to unite and fight for justice with all our strength!
Our main appeal is to the employees of all Samara enterprises. Large or not, public or not.
Support the staff of "Passenger Transport"! The enterprise has not been liquidated yet. Since April it has remained without buses. The vehicle park is in idle mode, but we all understand that it will not be able to work anymore. People should receive all the payments they deserve, compensation and salary debts. People should not be thrown out onto the street without a penny in their pocket! We demand that all laws be respected!
The more we gather under these requirements, the better for all the working people of Samara. And the fewer of us - the less will be respected by the working people of Samara. And we are not cattle, and we do not want to be considered as cattle, and we do not want to be turned into a herd of cattle!
Long live workers' solidarity!
Rise up, robbed people!
Enough of sleeping! Take away the beds!
Kuibyshev Branch of the AUCPB
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Overview of the labor movement in the first half of May 2018 in parts of Russia
Barricade in Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod)
On May 3 more than 300 indignant residents of Avtozavodsky district organized a resolute protest action. In the morning they blocked the Ilyicha avenue with a truck and trailer, thus creating a barricade, and then organized a rally near the metro station "Park Kultury".
People's anger has been caused by heating bill to pay, where there were overestimated amounts, which the authorities are cheatingly calling "recalculation." Residents were asked to pay from 1500 to 15000 rubles for the received heating without any explanation as from where such amounts came from. The most common surcharge, which is has been forced onto residents is 6000 rubles. It is unaffordable for most citizens.
The protesters against these predatory tariffs demanded explanations and normal recalculation. But instead of solving the problem of the people, the bourgeois authorities set the police on the meeting, who, threatening with repression, demanded a halt to the protest.
Activists do not intend to surrender but instead, collect signatures from the affected residents in order to forward the complaint to the authorities of Volgaenergosbyt. If their demand is not heard, then the townspeople are ready to repeat their action and hold rallies until the amounts in the bill are reduced to the proper amount.
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Strike by workers in Voronezh
On May 7, the employees of a glass container plant went on strike because of a delay in the payment of wages for two months. More than 500 people took part in the protest action - the entire workforce.
In one of the shops of the enterprise a meeting was held, where the workers demanded from the management to pay off their debts. The strike nearly resulted in the closure of Leninsky Prospekt in Voronezh. Workers stopped only by the fact that the technical director of the enterprise came to the shop and promised to pay wages for March - until May 15, and for April - until the end of the month.
In the current year, the factory announced forced downtime, which caused many employees to be transferred to a part-time working week and receiving only 2/3 of their wages.
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Protest action in Khabarovsk Territory
On May 10, in the village of Nekrasovka, workers of Agroenergo at the pig farm held a rally. At this protest they demanded from their superiors, payment of their debts on wages of more than 6 months.
The enterprise has a difficult financial and economic situation: employees are losing their jobs on a large scale, electricity is cut off in auxiliary shops and office premises, the mass killing of pigs has started due to a shortage of fodder. Debt on wages amount to at least 24 million 700 thousand rubles. "Agroenergo" is the only major pork producer in the Khabarovsk Territory.
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A rally in the suburbs
On May 5, residents of Volokolamsk again went out to protest against the Yadrovo landfill, demanding the closure of the dump.
The head of the city administration Lazarev does not agree with this and suggested to keep the graveyard of waste in the same place. It is clear that this Putin official does not care about the interests and opinion of ordinary people.
We recall that rallies over this issue in Volokolamsk have been continuing since the spring of last year. They gained special activity at the end of April, when hundreds of city and district residents had to go to hospital, due to being poisoned by the landfill smoke.
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