In St. Petersburg, autoworkers laid down their tools.
[…] at a remote construction site in Siberia, laborers painted their complaints in gigantic white letters on the roofs of their dormitories.
After months of frustration with an economy sagging under the weight of international sanctions and falling energy prices, workers across Russia are starting to protest against unpaid wages and go on strike, in the first nationwide backlash against President Vladimir Putin’s economic policies.
Russian companies tend to avoid laying off workers in a downturn to limit severance payments — or to evade the wrath of officials trying to minimize unemployment in their districts.
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle
