Euromedia 24:According to the information of , reconciliation meetings with Avinyan preceded the dismissal of the bus drivers who declared a strike. According to the source, the mayor of Yerevan, Tigran Avinyan, was not inclined to impose sanctions at first, so he sent an emissary to the drivers through the district authority, with a proposal like this: hang your heads back and go to work, or write petitions for release without rallies, leave, otherwise , if the riots continue, the process will make more noise, you don't need it, don't become a tool in the hands of the opposition and don't unnecessarily create grounds for judging you under a criminal article. It is said that 4 people opposed the proposal of reconciliation in this context and yesterday they voluntarily wrote applications for release.
But Tigran Avinyan announced during an interview with Public JSC that 32 drivers were fired, but the drivers learned about their unemployment only in the morning when they were going to work. Moreover, those drivers were targeted who stood in front of the mass media cameras and expressed their grievances and concerns openly and demanded a constructive approach. The reasons for the removal are not yet known. According to lawyers, these removals have no legal basis.
To remind, yesterday, on December 3, a large number of drivers serving Yerevan's bus network did not come to the line and announced a strike, demanding that the employer "Yerevan Bus" CJSC and the superior Yerevan Municipality review their working conditions and salary calculation methodology. The whole city was paralyzed from the morning, people waited for hours for buses, and the price from the starting point of taxi services was set up to 1500 drams.
