Health care workers in central Russia have threatened to go on hunger strike as of Monday to protest what they describe as "repercussions" against co-workers who demanded better working conditions and higher salaries at previous protests, media reports said.
The hunger strike planned in Ufa, the capital of Russia's republic of Bashkortostan, would be the third by medical workers in the city since the start of a labor dispute with local health care officials last April, Ekho Moskvy reported. About 20 health care workers are expected to go on a hunger strike on Monday, joining the protest started last week by a local ambulance service manager, Svetlana Yusupova, the report said.
Protesters, many of them ambulance workers, accuse local authorities of imposing penalties and putting "pressure" on their colleagues who took part in previous actions, Noviye Izvestia reported, citing anesthesiologist Irina Tishina, who planned to join the strike.
INC News, 23/03/2015 - via Moscow Times
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