23 January 2003
Authorities satisfy demands of workers at two enterprises in Pinsk
The authorities satisfied the demands of the staffs of two factories in Pinsk, Brest region, who staged strikes in December.
The strikers at ElKis, which employs sight-impaired people, complained against the factory's management that had paid the university fees of the daughter of a deputy head of the Pinsk City Executive Committee out of the enterprise's funds. The law-enforcement and control agencies found the workers' complaint justified. The official chose not to wait until the inspections conducted by the State Control Committee and the prosecutor's office came to an end, and repaid the 4.2 million rubels to the factory.
The workers of the Pinsk Canning Factory demanded clearing the pay arrears for the past five months, almost equivalent to the enterprise's basic assets. The cannery managed to pay the delayed wages thanks to a bank loan given to the heavily indebted enterprise against the government's guarantee.
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