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Steel makers starve to protest and to survive

Published: 03 April, 2009, 08:47


Workers at a metal production factory in the Russian city of Zlatoust in the Urals have found themselves starving after their salaries were slashed by two-thirds, and their hunger strike has had little effect.

 
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