A scandal is breaking out around paid parking on Vasilyevsky Island. According to the portal MR-7.ru, workers of the Baltic Plant are not able to pay for parking near the enterprise in the area of the Kosaya and Kozhevennaya lines, which will be introduced on November 1.
According to the chairman of the Interregional Trade Union “Workers Association” at the Baltic Plant, only a few people are able to pay 180 thousand a year for parking, and there are no benefits for employees of enterprises located on Vasilyevsky Island.
The fact is that they need to arrive at the plant by 6:30, so workers will not have time to get there on time by bus or metro – remote metro stations open at 5:20–5:40, and the journey takes almost an hour and a half. Now people are cooperating – and four residents of remote areas are traveling in one car.
At a meeting with the deputy head of the district administration Vladlen Rodionov, the director of the Parking Management Center Mikhail Kurdyaev and the deputy chairman of the transport committee Dmitry Vanchkov, the plant workers were offered to solve the problem with the enterprise administration or use public transport.
The Baltic workers have appealed to the district administration, the city governor and the Legislative Assembly, however, the trade union fears that if an agreement cannot be reached, mass layoffs may begin. “About a hundred people have already left one workshop—presumably, their decision was influenced, among other things, by the introduction of paid parking,” the material notes. 400 people have already expressed disagreement with paid parking; the union notes that the situation may affect more plant workers.
Source: Rosbalt
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