Production resumed Thursday at Ford Motor Co.'s only car assembly plant in Russia, with nearly 1,400 employees returning to work after a one-day strike pending further talks with plant officials, a union leader said. Alexei Etmanov, head of the labor union at the Vsevolozhsk plant near St. Petersburg, said work on the assembly lines resumed around midnight. The assembly line and other operations halted work at midnight Wednesday, as union leaders demanded the company stop using temporary workers, guarantee jobs for workers injured at the plant and provide extra pay and other benefits for hazardous assignments.
See "Workers at Ford plant in Russia end strike pending further talks", Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, February 14, 2007