Ilya Semenov, development director of the United Automotive Technologies (OAT) group, explained the risk of stopping conveyors due to low wages and called for higher prices for cars, informs RBC.
“We need to increase wages, including car prices. If we do not do this now, we will only waste time, ”Semenov quotes from the publication at the Innoprom exhibition.
According to him, in 2022, 8 thousand people worked at the enterprises of the group, and due to the sharp decline in automobile production in Russia, their number had to be reduced to 7 thousand people, and the recruitment of new workers is impossible. falling wages in the automotive industry.
“We really miss a thousand people. Based on these rates, the prices that are currently on the conveyor [автозаводов]we can’t produce the products,” said Semyonov.
The OAT group, owned by KamAZ, is the main supplier of AvtoVAZ. into it included 10 enterprises in five regions, including DAAZ, SAAZ, manufacturers of lighting equipment Avtosvet and Osvar, Vazinterservice, Rosavtoplast, Motor-Super.
Earlier, Mash Telegram channel reported that AvtoVAZ can: increase Lada car prices are already in October.