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Employees of MunaySpetsSnab Company LLP, a service firm based in Zhanaozen (a city in western Kazakhstan), have gone on strike, Inbusiness.kz reports. Participants of the protest released a video statement in which they “expressed concern over labor rights violations and social injustice.”
“Due to the failure to meet our demands, we have suspended work as of the night of October 28, 2025,” one of the strikers said.
The workers did not specify what demands they had made. Their appeal was addressed to the leadership of Kazakhstan, the regional authorities, and the national company KazMunayGas. There have been no official comments so far.
MunaySpetsSnab Company LLP provides freight transportation services to oil-producing enterprises.
In the western regions of Kazakhstan—whose economies are largely driven by the oil and gas industry—such labor protests occur regularly. In late 2023 and early 2024, the Mangystau region saw a wave of strikes by oil industry workers. Employees of West Oil Software, for instance, went on strike for several months, demanding to be included in the KazMunayGas staff, to have a unified wage system applied to them, and to renew the company’s material and technical resources.
In mid-January 2024, workers of the Great Wall Drilling Company in Aktau appealed to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, calling for a comprehensive inspection of the enterprise and voicing opposition to possible job cuts.
Later that month, around 800 workers of Kezbi LLP in Zhanaozen went on strike, demanding a 50 percent pay raise, upgrades to the company’s material and technical base, and the dismissal of several officials deemed responsible for the company’s problems.
In the spring of this year, employees of Kasibi Tandau LLP, working at the Tengiz oil field, also went on strike.
