>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 03:57:43 EDT >Subject: APPEAL FROM GAZPROM VEGA WORKERS CONTAMINATED BY RADIATION > >RUSSIA INFO-LIST >from International Solidarity with Workers in Russia - ISWoR >APPEAL FROM GAZPROM VEGA WORKERS >CONTAMINATED BY RADIATION > >Dear Comrades, > >We are workers in a department of the Russian "Gazprom" corporation. For ten >years we've been working at an underground repository for radioactive >waste left over from nuclear tests in the early 1980s at Prikaspiystaya >lowland. >During all these years we've been subject to constant radioactive emissions. >We have had no protective clothing although the radiation levels were 600 >times > higher than the maximum safe level. >In the summer of 1998 we demanded compensation for work related illnesses. > Since then we've been under unprecedented pressure from the management. > First they tried to dismiss us. But thanks to the "Zaschita" trade-union >which we >had joined the attempt failed. Then we were locked out of work and we have > not been paid for 18 months. >Our situation is getting worse . The Russian courts refuse to hear our >case. We have been told that there is no law to force our bosses to >compensate us > for the damages to our health and that we should try to persuade our company >to > pay us. The Russian state itself is paid by big companies and run by big >business. > >We need your help. Please send telegrams and letters of protest to the >Kremlin, to Putin so that he and his administration feel under pressure >from western workers. > > WE DEMAND: > -that our case should be tried in court. > -that those responsible for the destruction of our health >be punished. > - compensation for the illnesses we���ve suffered as a >result of Gazprom���s > unsafe working conditions. > > > >Workers of the Vega department of Gazprom > >Send protest faxes to President Putin at : +(7-095)206-02-66 >Please email a copy of your letter to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >*********************************************************** >The RUSSIA INFO-LIST >puts out information and analysis from a wide range of sources. >If you have something you would like to distribute on Russia Info-List, or >want to help in our practical solidarity work, contact: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]< >Or write to: ISWoR, Box R, 46 Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8RZ, England >************************************************************** > ISWoR web-site - http://members.aol.com/ISWoR/english/index.html >************************************************************** > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
