“The authorities defeated our TUC after we revealed how they give presents to each other from the public’s fund saying we have stupefied and destroyed the public. Thus, we came here to stand firmly on our position and to protect many other railway employees with facts and evidence to reveal their swindling”, Kh. Erdene, the head of the Train Depot TUC, read from a TUC statement.

According to their statement, V. Magdey, the director of Ulaanbaatar Railway and Mongolia- Russian joint stock association, ordered J. Ganbaatar, the head of Construction and apartment office, to give 3-room apartment totaling more than MNT 90 million to financial office director D. Saikhantsetseg. This order was included in his # A-229 order on 5 September, 2006. Therefore, a 2-room apartment privatized by D. Saikhantsetseg was transferred to her daughter N. Tegshkhorol, assistant teacher at the 5th kindergarten which belongs to the UB-Railway. 

According to the law, no entity or organization has the rights to transfer and dispose of individual’s possessions to any other individual.

“Apartment supplication for Railway empoyees is not enough. D. Nadmid, a 90 years old man, who worked for the UB-Railway for more than 30 years and participated in two wars, is living in a room of someone else’s apartment with his spouse who has been bedridden for 10 years. He has been trying to find an apartment from the company, but can’t afford it. Why can’t the Railway give this poor old man one room considering his contribution?” noted Kh. Erdene.

Therefore, the director of “Bayanbuural” resort that belongs to the UB-Railway was forced to resign before his contract ended, and the authorities appointed Batj. Enkhee, who used to work as a teacher in Khentii province, and brother of MP Batj. Batbayar.

“According to the study of personnel’s census, there were 300 working places in 2004, but this number increased to 570, in 2006. There must be some professional people who can control the operation of ‘Bayanbuural’ resort. But the former Prime Minister’s brother Arslandorj, who’s facing his 2nd year at auto base as a director, is checking the operation of the resort and organizing meetings. Where are the officials who are supposed to do this work?” he added.

“Just one day after the accident which took 3 persons’ lives, loading train # 3423 was stopped at junction # 30 and at that moment train # 285 was coming from the opposite side. Luckily junction duty man ordered the train to ‘stop’”.

“If the communication network didn’t work at that time, there would have been a terrible accident.  Later on, the administration had an immediate meeting with Batsaikhan, the sub-director of the sector and fired the junction duty man saying he is not experienced” stated Ts. Byambaa, the director of the Locomotive department TUC.

He added, “On the 27^th of last month, a train broke down at station # 8 and called for help. But the driver fixed it on his own and left without letting the center know. If other trains were going there for help, a terrible accident would have been repeated.”

According to the TUC’s statements, the Railway authorities were hiding this information because of their fear to take responsibility.

“Only ordinary employees get fired because of the accidents, not the authorities. They are not considering the laborers’ rights, but pocketing the public funds, and make poor employees take accountability,” they said.