Romanian workers are afraid of mass dismissals after the departure of Mechel

The Franz-Press agency reports that the sale of five metallurgical plants in Romania in Romania in Romania to anyone, the unknown metal trader, caused concern among the workers of these enterprises for its future.

“We are afraid that the sale of five steel plants in Romania in Romania, without any experience in this industry, will lead to massive dismissals and personnel reduction,” the trade union leaders of these metaco-plants said today.

Nikarom, whose annual income according to AFP does not exceed 340 thousand euros, will control the steel sector of Romania with sales volume of 850 million euros per year. The Romanian press calls this deal only as "a aquarium fish ate a whale."

Mechel declared multimillion -dollar losses that recently led to a number of production in December last year and, as analysts at the Romanian publication Ziarul Financiar, Nikarom does not have visible financial resources to resume steel production in Romania.

Despite the fiery assurances of the Romanian Minister of Economics, Mr. Varuzhan Zaganian that the new owner of metallurgical plants will resume the production of steel in Tyrgovishta and Buzhau, hundreds of workers are afraid of a new wave of dismissal.

Recall that on February 19, the Russian Group Mechel without details and any comments announced the sale of five of its plants in Romania. More than four thousand employees of the Romanian branch of Mechel heard this news from newspapers and magazines, while the personality of the buyer, a small trader without experience in the steel industry, caused confusion in their ranks.