YEREVAN. – Several dozens of employees of the Nairit chemical rubber plant of Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan have assembled outside the Office of the President on Tuesday.

A staff member of the petitions and letters’ department of the presidential office approached the protesting Nairit workers, whose number is growing, and promised to receive them some time later.

The demonstrating plant employees told Armenian News-NEWS.am that although they were promised that their salaries for December 2014 would be paid in January 2015, they have not yet been paid.

“We are presenting our demand here today. The people have not gathered here to carry out uncouthness, beatings. Our demand is to receive our salary, our honest sweat,” Nairit employee Azat Grigoryan specifically noted.

Due to the recent tragedy that occurred in Gyumri city, where an entire family was brutally killed on January 12, the plant workers had postponed their January 16 march toward the Office of the President.

The eighteen months of unpaid wages of the employees of Nairit chemical rubber plant, which no longer operates, total Armenian drams equivalent to approximately $15 million. The workers have assembled outside the Government Building and the Office of the President numerous times, and demanded a solution to their problems.