In the Dry Log on Wednesday, July 18, will be held a union meeting on a bill to raise the retirement age. Today a similar event is taking place in Severouralsk. Earlier rallies were held in Kamensk-Uralsky and Kachkanar, July 12 - in Krasnoufimsk and Verkhnyaya Salda.

So, in Krasnoufimsk in a meeting the vice-president of Federation of trade unions of Sverdlovsk area Alexey Kiselev. A total of about 1,000 people gathered for the rally, among them delegations of trade union activists from Pervouralsk, Polevskoy, Achita and Artey who came to support the organizers of this action - the coordinating council of the trade union organizations of Krasnoufimsk headed by Lyudmila Tarasova.

Speaking pro-active workers, representing different professions and organizations, expressed categorically and emotionally. It was said that it is extremely difficult for a woman up to 63 years to work as a teacher in active communication with children, a crane operator at a metallurgical enterprise to rise at that age on a tap and work in a hot shop, milkmaid go to milking from early morning and at night to return from an evening milking.

According to the protesters, the bill on raising the retirement age is untimely, and we must first weigh the pros and cons, and then make informed decisions.

"About 700 people participated in the rally in Upper Salda: VSMPO's trade union activists and the budgetary sphere of the Defense Ministry, townspeople. The organizer of the protest was the Coordination Council of the trade unions of the municipality, headed by Olga Matveeva. Speaking workers said that the consequences of a possible reform would affect several generations of Russians, including children and grandchildren of the working population; and people have the right to know how their life will develop, how the economy of the region, the country where it is better to go to study and work, whether all will have jobs, will provide decent retirement benefits to the Pension Fund, "reports FPSO.