The most cherished desire of the bosses ---- Last week, our homegrown
capitalists once again expressed their most cherished desire - to havecheap, disenfranchised slaves. This time they were found in distant
exotic Myanmar. ---- Myanmar is a state in Southeast Asia, one of the
most dangerous countries in the world, constantly living in a state of
civil war and religious conflicts. The human rights situation in Myanmar
is considered one of the worst in the world. Forced labor is thriving in
the country, and just over 20% of the population has access to the
Internet. Myanmar is also the world's leading opium producer and a good
friend of the Russian Federation.
And why a friend? Because in 2021, a coup took place there, and the
military came to power, eliminating democratic freedoms and establishing
a dictatorship. In general, a completely understandable and predictable
partner with whom you can negotiate, bypassing the interests of the
residents of Myanmar themselves.
In 2023, both countries restored air traffic after a 30-year break,
signed a memorandum on cooperation in the field of tourism. Now in the
Russian Federation, Myanmar is actively promoted as a "good place to
relax" and in every possible way "strengthen relations". In March 2025,
the Russian authorities are preparing to sign an agreement on a
bilateral visa-free regime with Myanmar. And an official Russian
delegation went to Myanmar itself to attract foreign personnel. The
advertising material about the trip says that the Intrud company
"managed to conclude eight agreements for the transportation of 350
qualified specialists" who will arrive in Transbaikalia in two months.
"The labor force from Myanmar is the most affordable in terms of price -
the salary per worker is only from 450 dollars," shared the joy of the
president of the Union of Builders of the Zabaikalsky Krai, the general
director of the branch of "Intrud DFO" Liana Schiller. - "At the same
time, the Myanmar people are excellent multi-disciplinary specialists
who have proven themselves all over the world. They work in
manufacturing, in the construction sector, in the catering industry, in
the agro-industrial complex, in transport, in housing and communal
services, in medical organizations."
They tactfully kept silent about the excellent multi-disciplinary
specialists from Russia - where they went and why they did not please
the employers is not specified. However, a month earlier, Liana Schiller
explained that local workers are too expensive and are increasingly less
likely to agree to slave labor, and, despite all the difficulties,
bringing in foreigners "not demanding of living conditions" is much more
profitable for the employer.
"We see the solution to the problem for the construction industry in
this approach," explains Schiller. - "Because workers from India,
Bangladesh, Myanmar and other countries build just as well, but they are
much cheaper. In the future, not only builders will be able to come to
us, but also other personnel, for example, for the industrial sector,
public catering, and the medical sector."
Also, migrants from Myanmar have already been brought to the Amur
Region, ahead of Transbaikalia.
"To implement large projects both in the Amur Region and beyond, we
still sometimes have to attract foreigners. The Amur Region government
actively helps us with this," local developers said. - "We needed
welders, fitters and concrete workers. It turns out that we are the
first in the Russian Federation to bring in workers from Myanmar."
Alabuga, a special economic zone in Tatarstan, has not been left without
Myanmar either. So far, only 40 people have been brought there. But this
is obviously only the beginning.
It seems that the notorious "Russian Community" has a new "insidious
enemy". It is quite possible that we will soon find out that "it is not
the Uzbeks and Tajiks who are to blame for everything", but the
Myanmars, and the Indians and Bangladeshis to boot. And Liana Schiller,
naturally, will have nothing to do with it.
Our "Myanmars"
Meanwhile, the state is trying to find its even cheaper "Myanmars" in
Russian villages and towns.
An employee of Hospital No. 20 in the village of Uvat in the Tyumen
Region told online about the mass dismissal of ambulance drivers due to
paltry salaries and the brutal attitude of the management towards all
medical workers - both paramedics and drivers constantly work overtime,
but the management refuses to pay for extra hours.
"The hospital does not respond to our requests that we are not getting
enough. On February 28, some drivers received an advance of 7-9 thousand
rubles. And how can you live on such an advance? I'm afraid to imagine
what kind of salary they'll get for the standard they worked in
February. Our salary was 8,568 rubles. We had to quit to find a decent
job with a good salary," the driver said.
The Tyumen Region Health Department responded to a request from local
journalists in the traditional spirit - they denied the information. The
department claims that although the drivers did quit, new personnel have
already been hired to take their places, and they are regularly paid for
overtime. The Department of Health also said that one shouldn't judge a
salary by the bare salary, because "it includes salary, hazardous
conditions, regional coefficient and northern allowance. And the amount
depends on the actual time worked" (then the entire minimum wage
accumulates).
Their own "Myanmars" have also been discovered in the Moscow region. In
the Odintsovo district, since the beginning of March, kindergarten
teachers and school teachers have begun to complain en masse online
about salary cuts - teachers are being deprived of incentive payments.
According to the teachers, their salaries are 30-40 thousand rubles. In
February, the authorities cut their incentive payments by 5-10 thousand
rubles and reported that there is no money for these payments now. In
addition, officials said that the average salary of teachers is quite
decent and amounts to 68 thousand rubles. According to the teachers
themselves, they have never seen such money.
In response, the outraged teachers proposed to reduce the salaries of
officials from the district administration by those same 5-10 thousand
rubles, and reported that many teachers are now waiting for the end of
the school year to change jobs.
In addition, activists held a series of single pickets under the windows
of deputies demanding that Odintsovo not be disgraced and that teachers
be paid decent salaries.
"Before March 8, I want to support kindergarten teachers, since more
publications have appeared on social networks that their salaries are
being reduced and incentive payments are being deprived. As a result,
teachers who lead overcrowded groups receive much less than, for
example, their colleagues in Moscow. Well, in principle, I consider
salaries from 30 to 40 thousand to be humiliating for the Odintsovo
District, because it is one of the richest municipalities in the Russian
Federation," said one of the activists, human rights activist Anton
Mogilnikov.
The city administration has different versions of what happened: the
head of the Odintsovo District Andrei Ivanov reported that there was
clearly some kind of mistake here, and a calculation error is to blame
for the reduction in incentive payments. At the same time, the head of
the education department, Olga Tkacheva, reported that the salaries of
teachers have decreased, since "according to the forecast of the
Ministry of Education, the kindergarten is not working at full capacity:
some pick up their children at a time other than 7 p.m. In addition, our
payroll fund is decreasing. There is no money."
Shortage of "Myanmars"
It is not surprising that with such salaries there is a shortage of
"Myanmars".
At Omsk school No. 72, which specializes in "in-depth study of
individual subjects", a physical education teacher has been teaching
Russian language and literature to seventh-graders for a whole month.
According to the students' parents, he has given the children
practically no grades for the entire quarter.
The physical education teacher was temporarily appointed to teach
philological sciences due to a shortage of teachers at the school. The
Omsk mayor's office responded to the parents' complaints by saying that
replacing a teacher does not violate the law, since the physical
education teacher has a pedagogical education.
The school administration claims that it is doing literally "everything
possible" to fill the vacancy of a philologist. In addition, teachers
are looking through employment services, as well as through Omsk
universities - letters were sent there with a request to attract
students for temporary replacement.
According to the head of the job search service SuperJob, which was
published by Kommersant, Russia lacks 500 thousand teachers.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, the teachers decided to speak out
under the news and share their own experience:
"I have 49 years of experience. I always wanted to wait until a teacher
would receive a decent salary for a full rate, and not for two. And what
do you think, this year I decided to leave, never having waited for the
attitude towards a teacher as a person."
"37 years in school... This year I am leaving, it's a pity, I love the
profession, but I have no strength: formalism, lies, a bunch of useless
and meaningless fuss, a feeling that, except for you, your work is not
needed by anyone."
"I worked in school for 43 years in elementary grades. I could have
worked longer. But they don't let us work in our profession. They are
killing us morally. I'm leaving in 3 months."
"I gave 25 years to school. That's it, I can't do it anymore. My salary
has turned into pennies, the attitude towards the teacher is like
cattle. I'm tired of fighting with the administration, crazy parents,
saving every penny. Young people - DO NOT GO TO SCHOOL. And to those who
are unhappy that their gym teacher is teaching - don't worry, everything
is still ahead. The gym teacher will leave, and the guard will teach.
This is the future of Russia."
The episode was prepared by the Antijob project
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