As usual, legitimate rights of employees are being violated, their work conditions and living standards of their families remain unsatisfactory.
Average wages are being decreased, volume of social payments from budgets of all levels declines.
More than 17 million employees at 107 thousand enterprises are not paid in time. Tripartite negotiations on minimal levels of wages and pensions for 2000-2001 reached a deadlock. All these facts lead to the increasing of social tension and continuation of collective actions of protest. The main demand of the strikers is to pay off the state s debts for many months. There are many strikes at power and energy enterprises and institutions in Primorye region with the same demands.