A State Duma deputy who supported a UAZ workers' strike received threats from armed men who recorded a video of him "from behind the ribbon."
Two men in camouflage and carrying automatic weapons recorded a video message to a State Duma deputy. To Alexey Kurinnykh, who stood up for him a week ago strikers workers of the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant.
Men are against the backdrop of a camouflaged UAZ Patriot vehicle, their faces hidden by masks.
"This fucking box, made at the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant, fucking came to us! It helps us a lot, and not just us, but also the other guys in the SVO zone!" one of the video's authors fumes. "And you start doing some kind of bullshit there!"
On video recording drew Mikhail Kostrikov, deputy editor-in-chief of Pravda newspaper, recalled that the strike at UAZ first broke on May 17, when 50 workers stopped the UAZ Patriot assembly line an hour before the end of the workday. They demanded a raise, which, according to them, averages only 20 rubles.
According to plant management, notes According to Pravda, the average salary at UAZ is 38 rubles. But even this amount is 35 times less than what top management receives. According to the publication, the immediate pretext for the strike was the transfer of ownership of the plant in 2022 and an increase in their own compensation from 144 to 352 million rubles.
"Is it right that the factory workers are paid pennies, barely enough to survive, while UAZ managers' monthly income has tripled since last year: from 0,4 million to 1,3 million rubles? Don't you have anything to say to these managers? How many UAZs can be produced with this money?" journalist Mikhail Kostrikov asked the video's creators.
He also reminded them that after the start of the war, the plant’s products, which were so much needed by the front, had become more expensive.
Video: Pravda newspaper