In Miass, the court fined the leader of the protest trade union for holding a picket

In Miass, a court fined the leader of a protest trade union for holding an uncoordinated picket. The organizer of the picket, Anatoly Bannykh, told Novaya Gazeta about this.

The court found Bannykh guilty under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses and imposed an administrative fine of 10,000 rubles on him. The leader of the local branch of the Union of Trade Unions of Russia did not admit guilt.

“The resolution, in my opinion, was already prepared in advance,” Anatoly Bannykh told a correspondent for Novaya Gazeta.

“They needed to punish me so that others would be disrespectful. We will appeal,” he concluded.

According to Bannykh, this morning he was summoned to the district police officer for interrogation to testify. Allegedly, the management of the Ural plant, where Anatoly works, wants to involve him under Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code (Slander).

An uncoordinated picket near the city administration in Miass took place on November 29. Several dozen people took to the mass picket for the preservation of jobs and the right to work. Some of the protesters were previously fired from the Ural plant, and then reinstated by a court decision.

The conflict between the workers and the management of the Ural plant arose in February, when employees went to a mass picket against the introduction of a rolling schedule at the factory, which limited workers' right to two days off in a row.

In the spring, the labor inspectorate canceled the introduction of a rolling schedule, recognizing it as worsening the situation of workers in production.

At the same time, in the summer, the administration of the Ural plant fired six workers (including the leader of a protest trade union) who took part in protest actions for refusing to sign a new labor contract, the text of which retained a rolling schedule.

Despite the fact that during the autumn the workers were able to return to their jobs by court order, the plant administration significantly worsened their working conditions. According to Anatoly Bannykh, all the restored workers are “on the black list” of the administration: under the special control of the resource protection service, without additional earnings - overtime and double days off.