{"id":275181,"date":"2016-10-20T14:51:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T10:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=275181"},"modified":"2016-10-24T15:42:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T11:42:46","slug":"former-gold-mine-worker-sews-mouth-shut-to-protest-unfair-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/10\/20\/former-gold-mine-worker-sews-mouth-shut-to-protest-unfair-dismissal.html","title":{"rendered":"Former Gold Mine Worker Sews Mouth Shut to Protest Unfair Dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Armen Yeranosyan, a resident of the town of Vardenis in Armenia&#39;s Gegharkunik province and a former locksmith at the province&#39;s Sotk gold mine, entered into the 5th day of a hunger strike today and stitched up his lips in protest of being &ldquo;unfairly&rdquo; fired from his job.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSpeaking to Epress.am, Yeranosyan, who has been staging his strike outside the Government building on Yerevan&#39;s Republic Square, said he was dismissed 5 months ago for drinking on the job. &ldquo;It was my father&#39;s birthday, and I drank two shots of vodka to my [late] father at the end of the work day. However, just as I was leaving, management representatives came and fired me on the spot, saying that I was smelling of alcohol. I don&#39;t see why thay had to resort to such a drastic measure; they could have given me a reprimand instead or not give me a bonus that month,&rdquo; the protester said, adding that he has been left in dire financial straits after losing his job.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;I could hardly make ends meet with that job; the salary was barely enough to pay off my loans. I had managed to reduce the size of the loans but they have doubled again now that I&#39;ve been sacked and unable to pay. This is inhuman. I live with my 80-year-old mother in grave conditions, but I&#39;m not asking for [financial] help or anything; I just want to get my job back so that I can make my own living.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tState officials, Yeranosyan went on, have yet to react to his protest action; &ldquo;I will not unsew my mouth until I am called back to my job. I haven&#39;t gone home for 4 days, but no one [from the authorities] has come out to speak to me. No one cares about the fate of a citizen.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI could hardly make ends meet with that job; the salary was barely enough to pay off my loans. I had managed to reduce the size of the loans but they have doubled again now that I&#8217;ve been sacked and unable to pay&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":275177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[65979],"tags":[28180,65603,53896],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}