KRIVYI RIH, Ukraine — It ended with the strikebreakers.
In May, this city of 650,000 people more than 400 kilometers southeast of Kyiv was gripped by a strike as work at its biggest factory — the ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih steel plant — ground to a halt.
Operators of the factory’s internal rail system had gone on strike for higher wages, refusing to guide trains along the factory’s self-enclosed supply chain until they receive monthly pay of 1,000 euros. But lack of supply placed the factory’s furnaces in danger of destruction, forcing management to make a choice: cede to the workers’ demands or find a way to buy time?
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