POWER WORKERS IN RUSSIAN FAR EAST ON INDEFINITE STRIKE.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 3 Issue: 206

A total of 10,000 electric power workers are on an indefinite strike in Primorsky Krai. They are demanding payment of up to ten months of wage arrears. The protesters are planning today to picket the town hall in the provincial capital, Vladivostok, and have threatened to mark the 80th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution by blocking the Trans-Siberian railway. Coal miners are also threatening to strike over wage arrears. (RTR, November 3)

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