General Motors union leaders receive threatening phone calls as plant cuts work week
General Motors on Monday stopped a conveyor belt at its St. Petersburg factory and will move to three-day work weeks, Business-FM reported.
The factory, which opened in November, decided to slow production now because it was still "at the beginning of its technological cycle," GM Russia spokesman Sergei Lepnukhov said, the station reported.
The head of the factory's union, Yevgeny Ivanov, told police that he has received four phone calls threatening his life in the past week, Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported. Alexei Etmanov, the head of Ford's plant outside St. Petersburg, has received threats in the past and warded off three attackers with a pellet gun in November. (Moscow Times Business in Brief)
Moscow Times Business in Brief article in English:
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/1009/42/373918.htm
All Russian Confederation of Work (VKT) website report in Russian:
http://www.vkt.org.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=169&Itemid=2
Nezavisimaya newspaper article that Moscow Times refers to in Russian
http://news.ng.ru/2009/01/26/1232981037.html