41.   Both trade unions are demanding higher wages from Belgrade authorities.

42.   Both union representatives and Communist leaders addressed the official May Day rally, criticizing the government and demanding higher wages.

43.   Civil servants, whose purchasing power has been eroded by past wage increases below inflation, have rallied on the streets demanding better wages.

44.   Chidchai said illegally employed foreigners take jobs from Thais and do not demand high wages.

45.   Coal miners blocked railroads across Russia last summer to demand back wages and prevent the closure of inefficient mines, but managed to get few concessions from the government.

46.   Coal miners have staged periodic strikes and other protests across Russia since May to demand overdue wages.

47.   Complicating the chaos are separate demands by doctors and anesthesiologists demanding higher wages.

48.   Coal miners around Russia have taken part in sporadic strikes and pickets since May, protesting plans to shut their mines and demanding overdue wages.

49.   Coal miners in the southern Ural Mountains blocked the Trans-Siberian railway Monday to demand back wages, news agencies reported.

50.   Defense workers, like millions of other state employees throughout the country, have held strikes and pickets to demand wages that are months overdue.