With all the delays of wages at numerous plants in Belarus protest moods aren’t on the way

If in January 2015, 3,000 workers were owed their wages, by July 1 the figure reached 95,000 people, and the amount was more than 410 billion rubles.

For two days in a row Chinese workers of the enterprise Xuan Yuan in Dobrush boycotted work, despite the claims by the company management that the issue had been resolved, Belsat reports from Homel. "We want to go home. The Chinese management company would not give us the documents to go home,"  - said one of the Xuan Yuan employees.

Let us recall that the Chinese workers' protest began a week ago, on Thursday, when about 300 people marched on foot from Dobrush to Homel. The builders, who were engaged in the erection of the new building of the paper mill, demanded payment of the 3 months' salary arrears. After negotiations with the management of the company and the Chinese Ambassador, the builders returned to Dobrush, abandoning the idea of marching to Minsk.

The number of enterprises not paying wages compared to that in January has increased 30 times, Euroradio informs.

On June 1, 95,000 people in Belarus did not receive their salary. For instance, the Valozhyn flax plant still has not paid its workers the May salary. The average salary at the Valozhyn flax plant is 4.7 million rubles, neither the highest nor the lowest in the city.

The company Mahileudreu also has wage arrears, though it was visited by Aliaksandr Lukashenka few years ago, who instructed not to fire people without the knowledge of the management and then approved Decree #9 "On additional measures for the development of the wood processing industry."

He also commanded that the salary at the company reach 500 USD. But now on average, the company workers receive 4.6 million, and it is far from the infamous 500 USD.

The Babruisk-based Fandok has not paid salaries for months - the recently paid one was for March.

One of the workshops of the company is idle, but the people, according to the chairperson of the trade union, have been assigned to other jobs in the factory, no one complains.