UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 29, 2015. Uraltransmash (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod) coordinated a trade union conference. Chairman Yuri Vakulski presented a performance report for 2011-2015, the company press service reports. 'The conference was held before the take-off of the Collective Agreement Campaign, which is scheduled for November 2015. The plant's trade union contributes to the campaign in that it helps draft the agreement and controls its implementation. As Vakulski pointed out in his report, not a single social benefit was cut at the plant in the last five

UrBC, Chelyabinsk. October 29, 2015. MMK Group and ChTPZ Group held their 17th coordination committee meeting together to discuss their strategic cooperation. MMK PR & Advertising Center reports experts from the two companies' production, technological, sales, and logistics departments produced their performance reports for the eight months of 2015 and spoke about their future interaction in terms of supply, product quality, orders for the fourth quarter of the year, and working together for oil and gas companies projects such as Nord Stream 2. 'Our two companies both have

UrBC, Pervouralsk, October 29, 2015. ChTPZ Group's employees took part in the company's stand-up comedy competition. The event was held at Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant Palace of Culture, the company press service says. Five teams competed for the prize: M/F, Quality Mark, Shop Territory, Good Acquaintances, and Guests from the Future (a team of Pervouralsk Metallurgical School students). The Group has been coordinating similar contests since 2009. In this round of the competition, the first prize went to Quality Mark, so this team will now compete with the other finalists for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 29, 2015. Eli Yamin Blues Band brought its show to Seversky Pipe Plant (a member enterprise of Pipe Metallurgical Company/TMK), TMK press service reports. The band comprises four virtuoso musicians, who took the audience's breath away in America, China, Mali, Japan, and Europe's best concert halls. The CC Machine Tune Show was dedicated to the one year since the launch of the company's FQM mill, commissioned by Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev in October 2014. Over 1,300 plant workers came to dance to the blues; the show finished off with the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 29, 2015. The number of people out of jobs who did not register with any employment agencies came to 137,700 between January and September 2015, head of Rosstat's Sverdlovsk Region division Elena Kutina said at a press conference today. 'There are 2,352,900 people of working age in the area at the moment, of whom 2,215,200 are employed and 137,700 people are out of jobs but looking for new ones,' Kutina said. According to Kutina, 36,600 locals got officially registered with the employment services. 30,000 are classed as unemployed and 24,200 are