Aksenov is indifferent to the problems of the team and the fate of the management of the Feodosia plant "Gidropribor"
After the nationalization of the Dvuhyakornaya Bay enterprise in the village of Ordzhonikidze, near Feodosia, the labor collective wrote a letter to the Crimean governor Sergei Aksyonov, promising to organize a protest, writes the Crimean Telegraph weekly.
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The Gidropribor plant, the publication recalls, appeared in 1914. In Soviet times, the enterprise was the flagship of torpedo production for the Navy. However, after the collapse of the USSR, the enterprise turned out to be of no use to anyone and closed, leaving many local residents without work.
However, the plant got a chance for a new life in 2007, when the Dnepropetrovsk-based Alminsky Stone JSC bought it for 17 million hryvnia. Also, the joint-stock company turned out to be the owner of 75% of the shares of JSC Bukhta Dvukyakornaya, and the Gidropribor plant eventually received the same name. However, the new owners’ loud promises of revival turned into another disaster. By the end of 2013, Buhta Dvukyakornaya had accumulated over four million dollars in debt and was preparing, in general, to become bankrupt.
Therefore, at the beginning of this year, plant workers were optimistic about the news about the nationalization of the enterprise's property. It seemed that with the entry of Crimea into Russia, with a change of owner, the plant would be able to regain its former glory. The general director of the enterprise, Fyodor Druk, spoke about new prospects, telling reporters that the development of the enterprise is provided for by the federal program, and the plant’s capacity for the next five years is estimated at 1,5-2 billion rubles. True, the object was not included in the Federal Target Program for the development of Crimea, but Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin signed an order that talks about the revival of “Buhta”.
However, now the work collective, reports KT, is again in a difficult situation.
The fact is that new heads of nationalized facilities are being appointed in Crimea. For example, just the other day a new director of another enterprise, the Feodosia Optical Plant, was appointed, so Bukhta became seriously concerned about this issue. And they stood up to defend their director.
“The head of our plant is Druk Fedor Petrovich, who headed the plant at a time when the plant’s property complex, the true value of which is manifested only in its unity and integrity, was being prepared to be torn to pieces by those for whom money became the main purpose of existence,” the letter says of the labor collective of JSC "Buhta Dvukyakornaya", addressed to the head of the republic.
The letter also states that the director at one time returned the assets of the plant, which had previously been transferred to outsiders under fictitious agreements, and this made it possible to prevent the bankruptcy of the enterprise and its subsequent division in 2004.
In addition, in recent years, the head of Bukhta has been trying to maintain existing ties with Russian defense enterprises and departments.
However, the publication emphasizes, the Ministry of Industrial Policy of Crimea was not at all impressed by the clearly defined and active position of the enterprise’s workforce. In mid-May, an official response came from the department, in which the emphasis was placed on the fact that since 2007, production activities in the main profile have not been carried out here, that is, the plant has not produced or tested underwater equipment. The commission that went to the site found that there was no equipment suitable for use “as a result of ineffective management of the enterprise.”
But the plant’s employees retort: it is necessary, they say, to understand the conditions under which the enterprise existed in those years. Considering that it had already been looted before, it’s hard to imagine a leader who could launch such a colossus with a complete lack of funding. It is clear that no orders were received from the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and could not be received, which means that instead of income at the plant there were only expenses. However, even in such conditions, the enterprise was preserved, although nearby former production giants turned bankrupt and disappeared forever.
The response also states that “the appointment of a manager to the enterprise will be considered further.” True, there is no mention of any specific dates or who might take this position.
In Crimea, a certain practice has already developed when specialists from other regions are invited to manage local facilities. As the experience of recent years before the referendum has shown, when the peninsula became a place of continuous employment for officials and managers from the Donetsk region, such personnel decisions do not lead to good.
You also need to understand that after a state unitary enterprise was created instead of a joint stock company, no one signed new employment contracts with employees, so the entire workforce, in fact, found itself unemployed.
A change of management is not the only issue that currently worries the employees of the State Unitary Enterprise “Buhta Dvukyakornaya”. The company has a two-year (!) wage arrears. Due to the fact that the State Unitary Enterprise is not the legal successor of the joint stock company, people are justifiably afraid that their interests will not be taken into account and they will not receive the money they are legally entitled to.
“The debt for wages alone without taxes amounts to 12 million rubles. And we understood that they were not going to pay us,” Lyudmila Desnichenko, head of Bureau No. 1, told the newspapers.
If it makes sense for people to worry about preserving their own jobs and salary debts, the weekly notes, then in general there seems to be no need to worry about the future of the enterprise. At least now at the level of the Crimean government there is talk that a strategic investor has already appeared - the Marine Underwater Weapons - Gidropribor concern, which is part of the Tactical Military Weapons Corporation (St. Petersburg) and which, in fact, is called upon to finance the revival Feodosia plant.
Meanwhile, Crimean Telegraph's attempts to contact the Minister of Industrial Policy Andrei Skrynnik were unsuccessful - the official did not find time to comment on the situation with the plant.
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