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Strike - Russia - Ford: the New Face of Russian Labor Unions
Moscow,Russia -The Moscow News, by Marina Pustilnik -10 Nov 2005: -- Last week 350 employees of Ford Motor’s Russian plant in Vsevolozhsk outside St. Petersburg have gone on warning strike demanding a 30% increase in wages and the introduction of a so-called 13th salary at the end of each year as labor productivity and inflation rates have increased. There has been no official reaction from the plant’s top management, save for the announcement that the strike would have no negative effects on the plant’s deliveries... After collapse of the Soviet Union, many workers have found themselves unneeded, as plant after plant was cutting production and closing down, but the labor unions of old times were not much help in this matter. The situation is changing now, as economic growth brings investments to the industrial sector, and workers once again find themselves in demand. Labor unionism in Russia is still in its nascent stage, and the fear of layoffs still runs deep in the workers’ hearts, but the movement is picking up. Active labor union movement is a sight of a truly market society, and in this regard Russia can congratulate itself — market relations are finally taking roots in the hearts and psyches of Russian people...
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