Workers at MAZ, other major Minsk plants join in protests
MINSK. Aug 17 (Interfax) - Employees of the Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant, Minsk Tractor Works, Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ), and several other enterprises have joined in on the protests happening in the Belarusian capital.
According to the Nasha Niva online newspaper, columns of striking workers are currently moving from one plant to another in the Zavodskoi district, and more people are joining them.
The majority of protesters have now gathered near MAZ after being informed that workers there have been locked inside the workshops and are not being allowed to leave the enterprise.
The demonstrators plan to walk along Partizansky Avenue toward the Minsk Motor Plant and then head to v, where the headquarters of the Belarusian Television and Radio Company (BTRC) is located.
As reported earlier, journalists and technical personnel from the television channel are also holding a strike near the BTRC building.
