We jumped: Hunger riots begin in Mariupol
Ukraine's provocations in the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait, which were responded to by increased security measures for ships by the Russian border service, led to the fact that enterprises in Ukrainian cities in the Azov region were on the verge of bankruptcy, and workers began to have their salaries delayed.
Thus, workers of the Azov shipyard in Mariupol are threatened with riots and strikes. Their salaries are systematically delayed, giving them only hundreds of hryvnias, and even then with a delay, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The factory employees no longer even have money to get to work.
“I don’t even have anything to come to work on Monday for. It takes me two hours to get here. What do i do? I will come on Monday and write a statement about forced absences,” one of the plant workers said at the rally.
“On the Friday before last we received a piece, up to 300 hryvnia. This was a piece of the advance payment that should have been paid a month ago. We don't live, we survive. Constantly on loans, constantly in debt,” added his colleague.
The head of the trade union, Alexey Sheygus, said that if wage debts are not repaid, workers will go on strike.
The plant's management explains the delays in paying wages by the fall in the enterprise's income and blames Russia for everything, calling its actions in the Azov Sea a blockade.
“We lost all transshipment and lost ship repair orders. Naturally, this affected the income of the enterprise. The company lost 50% of the orders it had. Naturally, this was reflected in those issues related to wage payments. We pay wages in doses. From the first tranches that arrive, we pay wages and try to stabilize the situation,” said Oleg Tursky, general director of the plant.
As PolitNavigator reported, Previously, ex-commander of the Ukrainian Navy Sergei Gaiduk warned that the consequence of tightening inspections by the Russian Border Service of ships coming from Berdyansk and Mariupol would be a deterioration in the economic situation in these cities, which would lead to dissatisfaction with the local population regarding the policies of Kyiv, which is unable to come to an agreement with its neighbors.
“We must understand that up to 5 thousand port workers work in these ports, who, in case of loss of work, can carry out actions of a social nature, that is, there may be social fluctuations among the population, and here the miscalculation goes in that direction... I think these issues are being calculated and Russia is betting on this,” Gaiduk warned.
Mariupol commercial port was unable to fulfill the cargo transshipment plan and switched to a strict economy regime. As stated by the head of the sea trade port, Alexander Oleinik, after the construction of the bridge across the Kerch Strait The port of Mariupol lost about six billion hryvnia.
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