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<text id=89TT1276>
<title>
May 15, 1989: World Notes:Soviet Union
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
May 15, 1989 Waiting For Washington
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 51
World Notes
SOVIET UNION
Workers of the World: Strike!
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<p> According to Marxist-Leninist dogma, Soviet workers have no
reason to strike because they live in a proletarian paradise.
That has not, however, stopped the working masses in the world's
oldest socialist state from occasionally walking out.
</p>
<p> Last week Moscow decided to drop the ideological baggage
and proposed a new law that for the first time would allow the
country's normally docile labor unions, to which more than 90%
of all Soviet workers belong, the right to strike. The law is
expected to be enacted later this year.
</p>
<p> The government's action is partly a result of increased
work disruptions under Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika. Last
year alone brought at least 15 strikes around the country
involving factory workers, miners, bus drivers and carpet
weavers. Last month even the Leningrad police walked off the
beat for 24 hours, demanding better working conditions.
</p>
</body></article>
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