Port of Yeysk dockworkers set for mass resignation
JSC Yeysk Sea Port faces operations disruption as more than 120 dockworkers of the company have threatened mass resignation due to wage cuts, the Yeysk.Info reports quoting a letter of the longshoremen union.
The letter said that all dockworkers of the stevedore company (over 120 people) have turned in their resignation (on 6-7 May). The workers said they decided to quit because their real wages slumped by twofold as compared with 2009. According to the longshoremen, there was no wage adjustment conducted in these years. Besides, the oil terminal commissioned at the port for exports of fuel oil had worsened the environmental situation, which can not but affect the health of dockworkers, the Yeysk.Info quoted the letter as saying.
JSC Yeysk Sea Port is a stevedoring company operating at the Russian southern Port of Yeysk. The company has been engaged since February 2011 in transshipment of export diesel fuel. Port of Yeysk specializes in handling exports / imports passing through to ports on the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.