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“He caught me at the door and kicked me out…”

December 18, 2012
Director of Rustavi Cement Factory is blamed in physical assault of an employee

Manon Bokuchava, Kvemo Kartli

On December 17, protest assembly was held in the factory of Heidelberg Cement. Workers of the auto-transport workshop requested to change their director. They said, two weeks ago, acting director Mamuka Suladze had physically assaulted a worker two weeks before.

“Enterprise manager called us to his working room. About eight people met him. He was angry and accused us of thievery. He personally blamed me of stealing something in the factory and had shared the benefit with the head of the workshop. I told him it was not true. Then he started insulting me and leaving the room, he caught me at the door and kicked me out. He chased me outside his room and continued cursing me,” said worker Temur Khatiashvili.

Head of auto-transport workshop Vano Sharikadze confirmed Khatiashvili’s allegation. “I was in the room at that moment. Temuri was blamed in stealing some raw materials and sharing the profit with me. During the argument director Mamuka Suladze got very angry and he kicked Temur Khatiashvili when leaving the room. As I learned, he kicked Temuri in the corridor too. The director insulted us after he returned to the room. This incident was not made public because initially we applied to the head office but unless they respond to us, we will petition to the company owners in Germany. I wonder whether employees are treated in this way in Germany or not. We demand to change the director and to treat workers with more respect.”

Employees of the aforementioned workshop intend meeting with the Rustavi majoritarian MP. Mamuka Suladze denies information about physical assault of the worker. 

“I did not assault him. We had an argument but I did not insult him at all. Their assemblies are connected with restricted supervision on the use of fuel. We seriously control this issue. Before that, operators of locomotive and other people frequently stole diesel at night and as far as I know the thefts were arrested. Afterwards, the head office decided to fire head of railway workshop of the enterprise. Those assemblies and protest demonstrations followed his dismissal,” Suladze said.

He added that he is not going to resign because 535 people work in the enterprise and only 20 of them request his resignation.

Employees of the Rustavi Cement Factory expect reaction from the German head office of the Heidelberg Cement. They said initially Suladze was insulting them and now he started to physically abuse him – they are not going to put up with it. 

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