Railway workers are demanding a 15 percent wage raise by May 1. The Director of the Labor Union of Mongolian Railway, Kh.Erdene and 20 of his colleagues told a press conference on Tuesday that more than half of the 16,000 workers in the sector have debts in banks. Their average monthly salary is MNT 300,000 which in no way covers their living costs. The 30 or so Russian experts are paid MNT 7-8 million a month.

The workers charged UB Railway with falsely stating in its financial report for the first quarter that the company paid MNT1,710 for one liter of diesel when the actual cost was much lower. The railway uses 70,000 tons of diesel in a year.