Gang "GM - AvtoVAZ" has refused to work in the hot shop

On Thursday, one of the brigades of the second shift of workers paint shop of the plant "GM - AvtoVAZ" staged a protest. Five people refused to continue working in the shop, where the temperature reached 37 degrees Celsius. Deputy Trade Union Committee of the paint shop Ilsiyar Sharafutdinova confirmed that the premises, which employs about 50 people, a few days of unbearable heat is kept: "During the week, we measured the temperature in the cool shops, and there she did not fall below the mark of 37 degrees. We working with hot bodywork, paint, the evaporation rate at this temperature increases. Of course, we have the opportunity to rest, a shower, but still work in such conditions is very difficult, "- she told" Interfax ". The union has supported the protest. As described Sharafutdinova, met with the strikers production director John Jones and foreman Victor Homer. After hearing the claim, they offered to move the brigade to another shop. "But we are asking to create the conditions in the place where we used to work", - explained the union representative. After talking with the leadership of the factory workers decided to suspend the protest for 15 days and give time for "normalization of conditions in the workshop and to bring the temperature up to the mark at 28 degrees." If after 15 days will not change and the temperature drops, the rally resumed, and the number of participants grows. "GM - AvtoVAZ" - a joint venture between Russia's OAO "AvtoVAZ", General Motors and American Bank. JV start car production in September 2002, manufactures two models of cars - Chevrolet Niva SUVs and passenger Chevrolet Viva.