From: "Curtis Price" <cansv-AT-igc.apc.org>
Date:          Mon, 7 Jul 1997 18:56:19 +0000
Subject:       (Fwd) Workers at Russian nuclear plant march, launch hunger st


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Date:          Sat, 5 Jul 1997 09:20:24 -0700
From:          NewsHound <NewsHound-AT-hound.com>

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Subject:       Workers at Russian nuclear plant march, launch hunger strike over wages



NewsHound article from "STRIKES" hound, score "80."



>>Workers<< at Russian nuclear plant march, launch hunger >>strike<< over
wages

SMOLENSK, Russia (AP) -- Nuclear power plant >>workers<< in western Russia
are marching 250 miles to the capital and others are on a hunger >>strike<<
to demand back wages, a news agency reported Saturday.

In a protest that began last week, 150 employees of a plant in Smolensk are
completing the march to Moscow in shifts, ITAR-Tass reported. Eight others
were on their second day of a hunger >>strike<< Saturday at plant.

Russia's once-prized nuclear plants have not been spared the government
wage delays affecting millions of >>workers<< across the country. The
Smolensk plant, which has three Chernobyl-type reactors, is owed $270
million by the government and clients, according to ITAR-Tass.

On Friday, President Boris Yeltsin ordered his government to pay the back
wages within three months, but senior government officials say the deadline
is unrealistic.



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