Workers at Ford’s plant in the town of Vsevolzhsk in Russia’s Leningrad Region have postponed their pay-rise strike for two weeks, Russian business daily Kommersant reported on Tuesday, citing Alexei Etmanov, head of the plant’s labour union.
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The strike was postponed, as on 7 April the management of the plant sent to the trade union a ruling of the Leningrad Region’s court to suspend the strike. According to the ruling the strikers had failed to agree with the management prior to the strike a minimum amount of work to be done at the plant during the strike, Etmanov said, the daily reported.
The strikers are demanding a 30% pay rise, Etmanov said.
At least 1,500 workers were expected to take part in the strike, which was scheduled to have started on Monday.
The plant’s management has offered a pay rise from 14.25% to 17.5%, Yekaterina Kulinenko, PR manager for the plant, said.
Etmanov said that the trade union may consider the pay rise proposed by the management in the next few days.
Kulinenko said that the plant’s management received notification about the 30-day strike on Monday. The notification was unsigned and as such could not be considered legitimate, she added. Besides this, the plant’s management has collected signatures of over 50% of workers who said that they would not go on strike.
