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Police in Belgrade prevent hundreds of workers from marching to parliament March 27 to protest budget cutbacks. The Serbian parliament March 30 passed the 2001 budget, which projects freezing the wages of public sector workers. In response, some 730,000 members of the main state-sector union staged a one-hour warning strike and vowed to undertake further actions. Two days earlier, in the southern town of Nis, some 5,000 trade union activists protested their deteriorating standard of living. The new budget projects inflation of 30 percent while real wages only go up 3 percent. Last year inflation was more than 110 percent.
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