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Rustavi Azoti workers sue the company after being dismissed

by OC Media

•2 min read

Fifty-eight former employees of a fertiliser plant in Rustavi, a town 20 km south of Tbilisi, who were dismissed earlier in 2017, are suing the owner in Rustavi City Court. They claim they were illegally dismissed and are demanding their jobs back as well as compensation. After more than 350 workers at the factory were fired by the company’s new management, they staged several protest rallies in front of the factory in Rustavi as well as in Tbilisi. However, only a small number of these are

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Are Georgia’s disparate left-wing protesters consolidating into a coherent political force?

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•7 min read

A wave of protests unusually widespread for Georgian leftist groups hit the capital Tbilisi this winter, after revelations of dreadful labour conditions in the country emerged. The question is, whether the protests can be transformed into a genuine, grassroots left-wing movement. After several unsuccessful trials, the grassroot workers’ movements from Tbilisi and beyond have found the power to stand together against harsh working conditions and exploitation, activists argue. Left-wing gr

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Protest in Tbilisi for dismissed Rustavi Azoti workers

by OC Media

•3 min read

Students, together with human rights activists and trade unions, organised a demonstration on 7 February in Georgia’s capital, to protest the mass firing of employees from a nitrogen plant in Rustavi, a town 20 km south of Tbilisi. The activists gathered at Rose Revolution Square, in the city centre, at noon, marching towards Freedom Square and the offices of Bank of Georgia (BOG). ‘The nitrogen plant under the ownership of BOG will either be conserved or will have a new investor, wh