More than a thousand people have left the former Volkswagen plant in Kaluga.
According to the Interregional Trade Union "Workers' Association" (IPRA), people forced to resign the new owner of the plant is LLC "AGR".
In total, about 1300 workers out of the 3700 remaining by October 01 resigned from the company.
The trade union's VKontakte page states that the company's management uses "Various dirty tricks to squeeze out staff," for example, they cancelled transport for workers, forced employees to sit out the day at the plant, and before that, significantly reduced pay for downtime.
"Jobs, equipment, and technology left over from Volkswagen are being destroyed.", — it is said further. Although “just a couple of weeks ago, management spoke about the possible prospects of concluding a contract for industrial assembly of automobiles with a large Chinese concern.”
In April 2023, the company Avilon, which bought Volkswagen's Russian assets, reported that not planning Mass layoffs at a plant in Kaluga.