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HEY, STATE, PAY US OUR WAGES!

24 February, 00:00
Last Thursday an all-Ukrainian trade union protest took place in Kyiv demanding the rival of domestic industrial production, payment of wage arrears, and social benefits. Over 25,000 people gathered at the Republic Stadium. Later they blocked the entrances to Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers, and Presidential Administration.

Meetings and picketing of local administrative bodies took place in virtually all oblast centers and large cities. In Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk the action attracted 5000 protesters demanding the payment of wage arrears, which in Ukraine now total Hr 5.2 billion, defending domestic producers, and no increase in charges for communal services. Resolutions from the meetings as a rule were directed to all state authorities from the President to district councils.

Photo by Viktor Marushchenko, The Day:
Kyiv has not seen such a massive protest action since 1991

 

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