Good news for the oilers!
After just a few years of toil, you will be able to take a break in
foreign countries and all thanks to SOCAR’s enlightened leadership. That’s because they care about their
employees and always try hard to ensure their workers get the very best five-star
rest and recuperation. Right now, SOCAR
employees can vacation in such beautiful places in Azerbaijan as Nabran, Gabala
and Lerik through trade union discounted prices. If they stay patient, they will also later be
able to take a break in Europe – and with discounted prices too.
So, long live the president of SOCAR – he who always cares about
his hard-working employees! But wait a
minute…Who really cares about who here?
We need a reality check here as to who needs to be grateful to who.
First, let’s look at the payment mechanism in place. A reminder that the trade union is formed
from percentages paid by the employees from their salary monthly. This means that members are actually paying
for their luxury breaks throughout the year.
The resorts where the
trade union organizes the discount travels are, sadly, under the direct control
of SOCAR leadership. If not that then
they have large-scale financial investments in them. Outside of the SOCAR set-up, these resorts
and venues already have a large number of visitors looking to spend their
cash. Given that SOCAR has over 60,000
employees and that more than half of them could potentially take a SOCAR
approved break at one of the approved resorts and you get to see the picture as
to how the money making potential further increases. If one then adds family members to the
equation, the money making potential increases further still. Thus, the employees, taking their break,
simply end up putting their money back in the pockets of SOCAR’s senior
executives and having limited choice as to where they vacation in the first
place!
So it is no surprise
to reflect on how SOCAR bought a resort venue, with a 90 year lease, in the
most corrupt and criminal country Europe, Montenegro. This was at a cost of four billion Euros to
SOCAR. A lot of money but entirely feasible
because of those oil revenues. Not
before too long, this new venue will no doubt start to blossom with hotels,
villas and business centers. Of course,
the main investment in all of this will be from oil money. And still, the oilers will be able to rest in
these kinds of resorts courtesy of half what they paid by way of their union
dues and the other half through their own money.
This is also despite
the fact that the resort will be open for business without being fully
completed. Yet the customers will be all
too ready to take their break. The whole
set-up is designed to satisfy all parties concerned. So that’s the ordinary
oiler and his family, businessmen and leaders of SOCAR, and even the corrupt
president of Montenegro, Milo Djukanovic.
How convenient. But we know with
100% certainty that this new arrangement won’t benefit the Azerbaijani people
now or their future generations. That’s
because those who steal, and we know their mentality all too well, only care
about the here and now and never about the future.
Namig Aghayev
29.06.2013
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