GOVERNMENT OWES 186 M DRAMS TO AIRLINE WORKERS

The former state airline workers did not get their salaries between October 2003 and March 2004. The government owes salary debts to 343 workers, 39 died without getting their salary. “Why, are they waiting until we die too?” they stated at the Union of Journalists on October 19.
The former pilots have appealed to the government and the president of Armenia for several times but the government put a soft pillow under their heads and promised to solve the problem. “The government paid our salary and we worked for the government, let them pay our salaries,” complain the former pilots and add, “We will go all the way until they pay the money.” And the size of the debt to each worker is different, from 8 thousand to 4 million drams. The former pilots say they want to get their money as soon as possible because they are afraid of losing their last hope, which is 200 million dollars from the sale of the property of the state airlines. The money, which appears to be unattainable for them, is with the manager, who is waiting for the decree of the government of Armenia to pay the salaries. And before that blessed day they are going to publish a book entitled “Aviagenocide”. And for the time being they are likely to go to the Constitutional Court.

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