EMPLOYEES at a mink farm in Russia's European exclave of Kaliningrad are starving their animals to demand unpaid wages.
Staff "refused to feed the animals to protest over unpaid salary arrears dating back to December", Grigory Isayevich, the deputy director of the furrier Russian Furs, which raises some 300,000 minks at five farms, said.He added several dozen angry employees had blocked access to the animals' food stores last week in an unusual strike that prompted the struggling company to pay back a part of the wage arrears.
Minks at the farm had already been underfed and suffering from chronic food shortages as the firm teeters on the brink of bankruptcy due to Russians cutting back on purchases of luxury fur coats amid the global economic crisis.
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