More and more news comes from all over the country about reductions in enterprises, the arbitrariness of the administration and owners, non-payment and delayed wages. Everyone has heard the strike of the miners in Kamchatka.
Most of our lives are mostly at work, always at work. The well-being of our families is directly related to it. But the owners need only profit. They do not care about people and production. If it is profitable for the owner to bankrupt the enterprise or to throw people out of work on the street, he will do it. Capitalists intimidate people with layoffs and cuts, while producing an army of unemployed people who will have to get a job for pennies in the North or leave for Moscow as guest workers. And this is at best.
In the workplace, as a rule, reigns complete arbitrariness of the administration of enterprises. Working conditions are worsening, the burden on people is increasing, wages are not rising, although the prices of all the necessary means of subsistence are constantly rising. Reigns complete anarchy of production. Today you work, and tomorrow you are pushed out into the street.
What can oppose this? How to solve this problem, how to improve your life and your family? Only we can improve it. No one else will help us. Labor teams need to unite. If you think that people at the Rodina poultry farm do not pay wages to people and this will not affect you, then you think in vain. If 1000 people were thrown out into Orsk, and this does not affect you, then you think so in vain. If you think that Uncle Vasya in your workshop, at your factory or factory has been reduced, it has bypassed you, and, therefore, it will bypass the next time, then you should not think so. Because all the processes in the economy are interrelated. One by one the capitalists will crush us like bedbugs. All the arbitrariness that occurs in our country occurs only when we allow it, we do not fight, we are divided.
Therefore, we must unite around a common goal. This is an increase in wages, improvement of working conditions, reduction of the working day (with preservation and increase in wages), a guarantee of preservation of the workplace. Such goals can only be formulated with the help of a collective agreement. What is a collective agreement, you probably do not know much, if you have it at the enterprise, and you do not know at all, if it does not exist at all. This is what the Labor Code says:
A collective agreement is a legal act regulating social and labor relations in an organization or an individual entrepreneur and concluded by employees and the employer in the person of their representatives (Labor Code of the Russian Federation, art. 40).
The collective agreement is a kind of employment agreement of the whole team of the enterprise with the administration, where you can specify the provision on wage increases, on working time and rest, on respect for the interests of employees, on all sorts of guarantees.
The content and structure of the collective agreement are determined by the parties.
The collective agreement may include the obligations of employees and the employer on the following issues:
- forms, systems and wages;
- payment of benefits, compensation;
- the mechanism for regulating wages, taking into account price increases, inflation, the fulfillment of indicators determined by the collective agreement;
- employment, retraining, conditions for the release of workers;
- working time and rest time, including issues of granting and the duration of holidays;
- improving the conditions and labor protection of workers, including women and youth;
- respect for the interests of workers in the privatization of state and municipal property;
- environmental safety and health protection of workers at work;
- guarantees and benefits for employees who combine work with training;
- rehabilitation and rest of employees and their families;
- partial or full payment of meals for employees;
- control over the implementation of the collective agreement, the procedure for making changes and additions to it, the responsibility of the parties, ensuring normal conditions for the activities of employee representatives, the procedure for informing employees about the implementation of the collective agreement (TK RF, article 41).
If you are delayed in the company wages, then in no case is there a need to hope that the good owner will pay it on time. According to the Labor Code, you have the right to suspend work, having previously notified the employer if he delays your wages by more than 15 days! Not two, not three months, but two weeks! Do not allow delays, otherwise you will be harassed. These are your unfortunate pennies, which are already lacking.
In case of a delay in the payment of wages for a period of more than 15 days, the employee has the right, having notified the employer in writing, to suspend work for the entire period until payment of the delayed amount (TK RF, Art. 142).
You can only save yourself, only the team. No faith to the state or good uncle. If we do not unite, then we will again get a crisis, as in the 1990s or even worse. And remember, you are not alone. There are 27 million people in productive labor in Russia, and the masters of life are a miserable bunch. There are trade unions, there is the Russian Workers' Committee (RKR), where leading collectives share their experience in the struggle for collective agreements, consultation and training are provided.
Fighting the arbitrariness of employers is only the first step in the class struggle, but everyone must take this step!
AUCPB-Kuybyshev
