Again payment delays for shipyard workers
Workers at military shipyards are once again left without payment for their job. At Roslyakovo shipyard outside Severomorsk, the workers have not been paid for two months.
The shipyard, where vessels belonging to the Northern Fleet are being repaired, has full order books and work goes on as normal, Murmansk television company GTRK Murman reports. The workers are not planning any protests at the moment, but continue to do their tasks while they wait to be paid.
The workers at navy shipyards in Murmansk Oblast are used to not getting their salary on time. In April, 120 workers at Roslaykovo shipyard laid down their work after five months without being paid, BarentsObserver reported. Two days before a planned protest meeting, the Ministry of Defence allocated one million EUR to the Northern Fleet as payment for earlier fulfilled orders by the fleet’s shipyards, and one month later nearly 10 million EUR that was supposed to cover all contracts for 2009 as well as lags from earlier finished work was transferred from the ministry.
The shipyard in Roslyakovo is completely depending on state military orders, and wages are paid from the Ministry of Defence. The shipyard is the main employer for the town’s 9600 inhabitants and has Russia’s only dock capable of holding nuclear-powered missile cruisers like the Northern Fleet’s flagship “Petr Veliky”.
