DUSHANBE, December 3, 2008, Asia-Plus — Representatives of Tajikistan Interior Ministry migration service in Russia and Tajik General Consulate in Yekaterinburg are in constant contact with Tajik migrant workers that have gone on a strike in Yekaterinburg to demand their wages from Russia’s limited liability company Alpha-Stroy, Rajabali Hasanov, acting chief of the representative office of the Tajik Interior Ministry migration service in Russia, told Asia-Plus by phone today morning.
According to him, the prosecutor’s office in Yekaterinburg’s Lenin district has launched probe into reasons for the strike.
“Tajik builders began the strike to demand overdue salaries for the last three months in an mount of totaling 11 million Russian rubles,” said Hasanova, “Our migrant workers do not violate public order; they are striking at the construction site. They are provided with hot meal and are in good health condition.”
He noted that the Interior Ministry migration service yesterday sent an official letter to Russia’s Federal Migration Service (FMS) with solicitation to provide assistance with settlement of the situation.
“The migrant workers on the strike have all necessary documents for work in the territory of the Sverdlovskaya region and have not violated the Russian legislation,”, Hasanov said, expressing hope that the issue would be settled in the near future.
