Bulgarian Miners Strike for Better Wages, Safety
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SOFIA, Bulgaria — Thousands of miners at a lead-zinc mine in Bulgaria went on strike Friday to press their demands for the resignation of the Communist-era management, higher wages and better safety.
A spokesman for the miners in Madan, in the Rodopa mountains south of Sofia, said more than 6,000 of the 11,400 miners stopped work and the others, on a later shift, were expected to follow suit.
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