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Ford Employees in Vsevolozhsk are at the Knife Edge with Forthcoming Dismissals and 20% Salary Cutoffs

02 июня 2009 г.

Another lot of dismissals and 20% salary reduction are expected on Ford manufacture in the city of Vsevolozhsk. As far as you know, the production has already been suspended for two weeks. Since next Monday all employees will work 4 daysa week and 90 workers will be dismissed.

As assure trade unions, the company management has wittingly limited the production of popular, so called budget, models. As far their cost is less than 350 thousand roubles, they get in the program of the state loan support.
Besides that, the working process has been inspected recently with prosecutors of Vsevolozhsk area. There have been no evidence of management violations found; nevertheless they have officially confirmed that annual car production has stayed put.

This was stated in the open letter, sent by trade-union leaders to the Prime Minister of the government of Russia, the chairman of the State Duma and the governor of Leningrad region. The authors  are sure the given situation might have been rescued only by intervention of federal and local authorities.
 

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