10 June 2004 05:30
Hunger strike resumed at Rostov region plant
ROSTOV-ON-DON. June 10 (Interfax-South) - Employees at a plant in the Rostov region's town of Shakhty resumed
their hunger strike on Thursday, Nelli Posylnaya, director of the Shakhty City Hall's information center, told
Interfax.
"A decision to begin a new hunger strike was made today," Posylnaya
said. Initially, only eight people planned to take part, but more
workers joined in later. The exact number of people involved in the
An earlier hunger strike at the Shakhty plant, which manufactures equipment for mines, was stopped on June 9 after
the employees received back wages.
strike is unknown.
Posylnaya explained the resumption of the hunger strike by the fact that only the participants in the earlier action
received their back wages.
A total of 781,000 rubles were paid to the plant's 25 workers who joined the previous hunger strike.
Another hunger strike involving 29 people is currently taking place at Shakhty's construction company over the
failure of the company's administration to make payments to the pension fund. [RU EUROPE EEU EMRG LEG] tm tl
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