STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- More Romanian Workers Join Hunger Strike Over Closed Steel Plant BUCHAREST, Jun 26, 2001 -- (dpa) The number of workers on hunger strike in the southwestern Romanian steel works Resita to underpin demands for a resumption of production at the plant rose to 260 Tuesday, national radio reported. About 2,000 workers meanwhile staged a protest outside the former state-owned plant which was privatized eight months ago, demanding that the government use its influence to ensure that they are paid outstanding wages and that work at the plant resumes. Production at the factory has been halted since it was sold to the U.S. firm Noble Ventures. The hunger strikers began their action last Thursday. The workers, among them trade union representatives from three other steel works, chanted slogans against the government and the new owners Noble Ventures. Among them was the radical trade union leader from the nearby Shil Valley coal mining region, Romeo Beja, who played a key role in miners unrest in the winter of 1999. The government has repeatedly said that it could not interfere in a conflict between a private enterprise and the workforce. (C)2001. dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
