In Russia, Hundreds Of Nuclear Plant Construction Workers Went On Strike

• 8.11.2025, 21:04

Because of unpaid wages.

About 300 employees of a separate subdivision of Orgenergostroy Institute (Moscow), which is constructing a nuclear research facility based on the multipurpose fast reactor (MBIR) in Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk Region, have gone on strike over a two-month delay in wages. The workers said that they will not return to the facility until they receive all due payments, Kommersant writes.

The protesters said that salaries have not been paid since September 2025, travel expenses have not been compensated since May-June, and vacation pay since August. In addition, the company has canceled lunches and transportation for staff, and shift workers have begun to be evicted from the housing provided. Appeals to the prosecutor's office, according to the workers, have not yielded any results. "We have nothing to pay our loans, debts have accumulated, living conditions are terrible: toilets are overflowing, we buy water at our own expense," employees complained in a video message to the chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin.

The workers sent a collective statement to the company's management and the regional labor inspectorate, citing Article 142 of the Labor Code, which gives them the right to suspend work if wages are delayed for more than 15 days with average earnings.