What is the salt of the crisis at the Solzavod (Siberian Usolye)

Ekaterina Vertinskaya : The Angara region runs the risk of being left without her own salt, and employees of two enterprises for the extraction and processing of this raw materials without work. In the city of Usol-Sibirskoye, the Sibsol plant is operating, the company is not a city-forming company, but, nevertheless, its abbreviated employees cannot get a job. Since May, people have been standing next in the employment center. Most of those who remained working at the enterprise are completely ignorant, which will happen to the plant further. Since March of this year, when the owner of the plant changed, the new leadership has never held meetings with employees. Ordinary workers do not know the directorate in the face. But for those who occupy leading posts and is closer to the high authorities of the Sibsoli, is also not clear. On the one hand, they are told about the modernization of production, on the other hand, they are reduced by workers. Lyudmila Sergeeva told us about the situation at the plant, the name is fictional, the woman is currently working at the enterprise, and therefore asked for her name and position not to be called.

Lyudmila Sergeeva : We were reduced car garage, six people were only left. The construction site also reduced everyone. Until the 13th, people work and leave. Then they said, and for other workshops they would still take, reduce. The buses canceled with us, now no one takes us to work. We get it ourselves. Even now they want to transfer people to an eight -hour work schedule, three -shift, there is generally until 12 at night of the shift. People are now in a panic, how to get, how to walk.

Ekaterina Vertinskaya : According to Lyudmila, if earlier they produced 250 tons of salt for the shift, now only 70. The new leadership gave an order - salt only in wagons. Where she goes, none of the old workers of the plant knows. And they were categorically banned for cars to release products. As a result, without salt there were large food enterprises of the region. Among them is the Irkutsk bakery. For 15 years they bought a saline brine in Usol, from May supplies stopped. The new leadership of the plant redirects all questions to Orenburg, to the company "Roussol Trading", which bought Sibsol, but are silent there. Officials, entrepreneurs and ordinary Irkutsk people have an opinion that the plant simply wants to close. But how to prevent this? Says the general director of the Irkutsk Bakery Sergey Karakich.

Sergey Karakich : I think that it is necessary to do so that the enterprise remains either in the property of the state, even expanded, or the owner must be socially oriented. Today we are talking about the development of small and medium -sized enterprises, today we are talking about the development of small business. And we say, we must invest in money, we must develop. Yes, nothing needs to be invested here, here we must save, what was.

Ekaterina Vertinskaya : The planters themselves, being in the ignorance, are no action to clarify the situation, to express their dissatisfaction to the new owner. Five years ago, they could not think about such a turn of events. Then 850 employees worked at the plant, the salary was three times higher than on average in the city. This is because the enterprise was led by an economic person, a former mayor of Usolye-Siberian Leonid Beloborodov. Leonid Petrovich this behavior of Sibsoli workers explains them with a special mentality.

Leonid Beloborodov : Usolye, in my opinion, is the only city where amazing groups in factories. Here at the plant of mining equipment, at least hit with a whip, as in that gypsy series, they are silent. There can be such gossip at the Solzavod, but devoted to the whole plant to the end.

Ekaterina Vertinskaya : officials of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Irkutsk Region try to solve the problem. But for now, to no avail. The leadership and owners of the plant refuse to communicate with them. In the same situation as the Sibsol plant may be the second Salerudnik of the Angara - Tiretsky. The company is in a difficult situation and its shares are put up for auction. The only contender for his purchase was the same Orenburg company Roussol Trading, but the transaction did not take place. Experts are confident that the behavior of the owner of the Usolysky salt in the salt factory can only talk about one thing, they want to close the plant. There are fears that the same thing will happen to the Tiret Sleerodnik, when it is still bought. Then hundreds of unemployed will look for where to find a job, and hundreds of thousands of inhabitants of the Angara region to buy Orenburg salt.