The indictment, on wage arrears exceeding two months, threatens the company boss a prison term up to two years or a fine up to 80,000 roubles-close on three thousand US dollars, the prosecutor said to Novosti.
The company personnel have not received wages for eleven months now, Alexander Korelin, Chemical Works trade union committee leader, complained to Novosti. There are 27 hunger strikers now that another two have joined in today. All protesters work in the acid procession shop.
The strikers demand back wages paid to the personnel down to the last kopeck. "We shall afford it only if the company goes on working. Now, we have launched a bankruptcy procedure to get rid of non-productive assets and fully concentrate on manufacture. We shall only then have the chance to earn what we need," Mr. Prokopyev said to our correspondent.
A team of prosecution officers started for Krasnouralsk today, Novosti learned from the press service of Russia's Deputy Prosecutor General for federal district Urals.
The Krasnouralsk Chemical Works is among strategic projects of the Russian military-industrial complex.
