Workers of PetroChina Daqing Tamsag LLC that runs the petroleum operations in Dornod aimag are planning to strike from January 25th.

Over 250 Mongolian workers of the 100 percent Chinese owned petroleum company have delivered a petition in order to have their wages increased by 50 percent.

Ch.Vladimir, the head of the Labor Union for PetroChina Daqing Tamsag spoke to our journalist about the circumstances leading to the strike.

-What is the reason behind the strike being called?

-We called a strike demanding wages to be increase only a year ago. At this time PetroChina Daqing Tamsag LLC authorities promised to grant us compensation for the previous months wages in January.

But they have accounted overtime pay, food and longevity bonus with the basic pay.

They are trying to fool workers into thinking they have increased the wages by by doing the accounting like this.

-How is the current workers` average pay?

-A worker`s average pay is 300 US dollars. Service and security workers earn only 100 US dollars per month.

But Chinese workers earn 2500 US dollars per month.

Therefore we insist that such unfairness is stopped and for wages of Mongolian workers to increase up to 50 percent.

-Have you made the announcement about calling a strike to the company?

-We delivered the notice but have not received any reply.