Employees of the financially strapped Nairit rubber plant have once again taken to the streets of Yerevan to demand a year’s worth of unpaid wages owed them.
By a vote of 75 to 3, the Armenian National Assembly today passed a bill to create an ad-hoc committee to investigate the issue of natural gas supply and pricing in Armenia.
While the Armenian parliament was debating a bill to create an ad-hoc committee to review the problems plaguing the Nairit Rubber Plant, outside the gates, angry factory workers were demanding they be paid several months worth of back wages.
Minasyan noted that an investigative report had surfaced in the Armenian press claiming that a move was underway to bring the plant to its knees and have it declared bankrupt.
Nairit Plant employees today informed Hetq that they are not being allowed to join the protest outside the Armenian government building today. The doors are locked and employees are unable to leave the premises.
Employees of the financially strapped Nayirit Rubber Plant in Yerevan have assembled outside the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, demanding a meeting with Minister Armen Movisisyan over unpaid back wages.
The ARF faction in parliament today introduced a motion calling for the creation of ad-hoc committee that would look into the operations, loan obligations and privatization of the Nairit Rubber Plant in Yerevan
ARF MP Artzvik Minasyan has made two futile attempts to receive written clarifications from the government regarding the Nairit Rubber Plant.
At the ongoing demonstration by Nairit Plant workers outside the Government Building, one of the demonstrators asked a government official if it would be possible for the state to pay the workers’ utility bills.