31.   Teachers in many regions also are insisting on receiving overdue wages.

32.   The children are later forced to work as household servants or as street vendors without receiving wages.

33.   The strikers said the Poles, employed on cargo ships by Meridian Ferries, received lower wages than British or French sailors and worked without benefits.

34.   They have received no wages since November, ITAR-Tass reported.

35.   Under German law, workers who call in sick can receive normal wages from their employers for up to six weeks.

36.   Workers in the two sectors had been receiving their wages on time since October, she said on Russian television Sunday night.

37.   It said senior foreign ministry officials in Moscow received wages representing only one-third of those paid to comparable finance ministry staff.

38.   Most public sector workers are either unpaid or receive their wages months late, and firms are locked in spiralling debt.

39.   On Sunday, spokesmen for the government and the private sector both said strikers would not receive wages if they went on strike.

40.   Some of them have received no wages for eight months.