Production continues to decline in practically all sectors. In this connection oblast budget losses already stand at half a trillion rubles. Around 5,000 specialists are to lose their jobs. Moreover, the railroad bosses had demanded that the shippers pay at least 50 percent in real money. As a result hundreds of freightcars loaded with coal, metal, and iron ore have not yet been dispatched.
Losses amount to several billion rubles.
All this has caused further angry outbursts in labor collectives. Miners' Protests in Sakhalin, Kuzbass, Rostov Noted. Miners Lie Down. The months-long holdups with wages were the reason for the protest. For over a year now, for instance, miners have been receiving meager so-called advances and checks stating the amount of money owing to them.