Thousands of health care workers protest wage freeze

Oct 01, 2008
By Monika Hanley

RIGA - Thousands of health care workers and teachers gathered outside the Parliament building in Riga to demand a raise in wages. The Sept. 26 protest, organized by medical workers from all around Latvia, saw an estimated 2,500 picketers shouting, chanting and calling out ministers. About seventy police and officers of the parliamentary security service were deployed in response. The protesters held posters with slogans like “Unfreeze the wages — freeze the ministers,” “Down with poverty,” “ ...

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