State Duma deputy Alexei Kurinny said that seven active participants in the strike at the UAZ plant were detained by the police department of the Zasviyazhsky district of Ulyanovsk. informs 73online.ru. The publication says that the organization’s suspension of its work because it fulfilled a state defense order could be considered sabotage.
According to Aleksey Kurinny, the workers were detained at the request of the general director of UAZ, Aleksey Spirin, for illegally stopping the work process and activities, which almost impeded the implementation of the state defense order. As stated by the deputy, the detention was carried out in order to put pressure on the workers.
In response to the MP’s words, UAZ employees recorded a video message in which employees stated that they took advantage of politicians who “have not entered the factory for several years.” Factory workers said that salary increases occur annually, but this is not the merit of the deputies, but the result of the work of the UAZ workers’ collective.
On the evening of May 17, Telegram channel Baza reportedthat the workers of the UAZ plant gathered on the factory floor on strike, and requested Salary increase. On the same day in the UAZ press service declaration It was stated that there was no strike at the factory and that the prosecutor’s office “socialbites.ca” announced about control in the enterprise.