Several former and current workers at the joint-stock metallurgical company KVV Liepajas metalurgs have sent an open letter to top state officials, to inform them about the complicated situation at the company and calling for a solution. The letter says that the investor chosen for the Liepajas plant was a fatal mistake, and severely criticises the new owner of the plant. Workers emphasise the humiliating situation at the company: ‘People who trusted promises by the company's new owners, quit the jobs they had found after the plant's insolvency and returned to work at the metallurgical plant, have been laid off again’. Workers have earned very little and were laid off on the pretext of failing the period of probation. The remaining workers had their wages cut, social contributions were last made in April, many have been told not to take vacations, and wages are now paid under the table.
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