Foreign workers come from Central Asia found themselves actually locked up at the construction site for several months, they can’t go home due to closed borders. These and other activities are effective from the point of view of coronavirus – experience the Amur gas processing plant is recognized by the Ministry of health of the Russian Federation of a model – but this “supermolina” watch, detachment from home and the uncertainty of the uncertain future due to constant threats of the “second wave” of coronavirus affect the psychological state of the builders. And in the end duty differences of several hundred working on financial matters with the guidance of the contractor who hired them to work on a normal 30-day watches, resulted in the violent protest by smashing Windows and destroying office equipment. As it turned out, workers ‘ wages are paid regularly, despite the mass media reports about a three-month delay. The conflict arose due to the delay of reimbursement for payment of registration documents for foreign workers, and additional payments for emergency overtime work, which workers do not receive on time.
According to police in the protest action was attended by 300 people, which is the General background 31 thousands of workers involved in the construction of the plant, doesn’t seem like such an impressive number. However, these few hundred were able to assert themselves – turning machines manual, and the storming of administrative buildings under the shouts and whistling a rollicking, triumphant pass through the office corridors with throwing fans and chairs. Shots for social networking was spectacular and action-Packed, despite the fact that the damage was more symbolic. However, the regional Prosecutor’s office still praised them highly – criminal case under article “hooliganism” and “participation in mass riots”, detained several active members.
Alone in the list of achievements of migrant workers is the destruction of the store “Avoska”, located on the territory of the town are carrying out is undisguised looting, which the police will be dealt with separately.
efficient regional authorities – the Governor of the Amur region, Vasily Orlov on the next day after the incident, met with outraged workers, the guidance of the contractor and representatives of law enforcement bodies took under personal control the solution to the conflict. Work suggested that measures of economic support in the form of compensation for the stay in quarantine one-time payment of salary to those who work on the watch for six months or more. The regional Prosecutor’s office made a submission to the heads of organizations participating in a construction site for violating labor and immigration laws, and opened a temporary foster to work with treatments affected workers. In turn, representatives of the contractor ronesans listened to the Governor and promised to meet the financial side of the question. The incident actually exhausted.
What’s next? Construction continues – to stop her and no one was going during the violence of the coronavirus, when the Amur GEA managed to keep the situation under control, unlike other large-scale construction projects (this is due, in particular, the importance of the project for the country’s economy, it is necessary for the development of non-oil exports, extraction and processing of valuable raw materials within the country). The discontent of the workers quickly extinguish the provisions of payments and, apparently, on watch to invite no longer. The organizers of the construction will extract the relevant experience and carry out explanatory work with its contractors. Pandemic coronavirus will finally come to naught, and sooner or later the workers will return home and miss their families. But not all the instigators of the riots will have some time to stay in Russia and get acquainted with the penal system.
But there is in this story and another important lesson – we need to think about the next move in the Far East. The need for a “new wave” development of the far Eastern regions was long overdue. A surge of emotion foreign workers, welded strong bonds of community, made possible, in particular, because in the far East are missing their hands. The lack of own building capacities and staffing problems forced to attract for the implementation of even such a large and largely “image” projects such as the Amur gas processing plant, workers from abroad.
And the first step to the creation of this profitability and decline the services of foreign workers – to create attractive conditions for the relocation of their own citizens to the far East. And then there will be construction companies, and infrastructure and an optimistic look into the future, which is now so lacking in the far East.
