Strike on BATE plant

The management of the plant hides this fact.

As Radio Svaboda reports, electrical equipment assemblers at the main production site of the Barysau plant of automotive and tractor electrical equipment (BATE) stopped their work in the morning on February 13. Workers of the second production site joined the strike.

Workers are reported to have stopped working protesting against low wages. The received only 1.3-1.5 million rubles in January.

The plant management denies the fact of a temporary strike. But it does not refute BATE deputy general directors Alyaksandr Marchankau and Andrei Skripko met with the protesters.