Following First Stevedoring Company and Second Stevedoring Company of Sea Port of St. Petersburg OJSC, the decision to suspend the strike was taken by dockworkers of Forth Stevedoring Company new agency Regnum reports. According to Alexander Moiseyenko, deputy chairman of Russian Trade Union of Dockworkers, the company has resumed normal operation.
“It is a compromise with the management. We do not want to strike for a strike. We do not want to leave our families without money. We want negotiations to find a compromise with our employers,” Moiseyenko25,” he explained. underlined. According to him, it does not mean the strike is over. “If we fail to obtain any positive results, we will resume the strike on November
As it was reported earlier, the strike started on November 13, at 08:00 a.m. (Moscow time) by the workers of First Stevedoring Company, Second Stevedoring Company and Forth Stevedoring Company of Morport OJSC under initiative of Russian Trade Union of Dockworkers They demanded a 20-25-percent rise in tariffs and guaranteed wages. During the strike, the dockworkers worked only one hour at the beginning and one hour at the end of each shift. The management of Sea Port of St. Petersburg considered the position of the dockworkers to be a destructive one, while the activities of the Trade Union Committee to be of populist nature.