«For three months, we have not been given the already low wages. At the same time 95% of the employees were released on forced vacation." This is stated by a group of workers of Sumgait Pipe Plant - JSC Azerboru.
The workers say that since March this year their nutrition has been suspended. Wages at the plant are average 250 manat.
In the summer of 2013 the government privatized a 97.39% stake in JSC Azerboru, which was acquired via the investment contest by LLC Baku Steel Company. The company has committed to invest in the company 5 million 267 thousand manat.
Idle since May, the pipe plant has more than 1,100 employees.
A spokesman for LLC Baku Steel Company Namig Akhmedov told Turan the company is in financial difficulties. However, they are looking for ways of repayment of wages to the employees of the Sumgayit enterprise. -----08B
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