“WE DEMAND OUR MONEY”
Support A1+!A group of former employees of “Hydroaparat” OLC in Jrvezh sent a complaint letter to 9 presidential candidates and to the mass media. Today they organized a protest action in front of the Government building demanding to meet the Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan.
The demonstrators organize a similar protest action for the second time with - “Why is the 6-th department silent?”, “Authorities support those who have robbed us” posters. They demanded the Government to return their 35 percent shares. In 1994 by the decision of the RA Government 20 percent of shares was allotted to each 330 employee. Some times later it became 35 percent based on the productive results. In 1998 the Ministry of Privatization sold 65 percent of the factory to AMF Company.
According to the employees, an agreement was signed according to which the number of employees was to be reduced to 250 and they were supposed to be paid 250 US dollars each, besides the Company was to make an investment of 1 million dollars. No point of the agreement was carried out and the number of employees was reduced to 30.
“Give us our 35 percent, we want to work, we all are unemployed now. The representative of AMF Benik Harutyunyan, without asking our opinions, gave the factory to “ArmRusGasArd” repaying a debt and now 65 percent of the factory belongs to him. The executive director of the factory Mher Ashughyan beats, frightens us, so that we will not demand anything from them” said one of the former employees Larisa Norekyan.
According to her “Hydroaparat” was a huge and wealthy factory and was the Moscow branch. They had about 1380 machine-tools imported from Germany, which were sold by the owners of the factory.
Today the representative of the Government received some representatives of demonstrators and promised to arrange their meeting with the Prime Minister on Monday. The delegation left the Government content hoping that their problems would be solved positively.
