07 June 2004 07:39
Workers on hunger strike in Rostov region to get 500,000 rubles
ROSTOV-ON-DON. June 7 (Interfax-South) - Workers on a hunger strike in Shakhty, Rostov region, will be given 500,000
rubles in compensation for wage arrears within the next two days, presidential envoy in the southern federal district
Vladimir Yakovlev told the press on Monday.
More than 100,000 rubles were transferred for workers of the Shakhty mining equipment plant on Monday morning.
Payment orders for another 400,000 rubles have also been made, and the money will be in Shakhty on Monday or Tuesday, he
said.
fitters, joined the strike last Wednesday. They are demanding the
payment of wage arrears, that the mine's managers be punished for
breaching labor laws and that dismissed employees be given full
The transfer will come from payment of company receivables and the sale of property at some coal mining companies,
Yakovlev said.
"But this is not enough for paying the debt," he said. He instructed departments in the southern federal
district to speed up the payment of wage arrears to the striking coal miners.
Staff members of the Shakhty mining equipment plant and the first assembly and construction department are taking
part in the hunger strike. The first assembly and construction department personnel, mostly
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