More workers strike in Kazakhstan's restive West, 9 February 2022

Hundreds of workers at the Burghylau oil company in the western town of Zhanaozen have launched a strike demanding higher salaries and better work conditions, joining workers at other energy companies in the restive western Manghystau region.

One of the striking workers, Bauyrzhan Abubakirov, told RFE/RL...that operations on the company's drilling wells had ground to a full stop. "There are 2,000 workers at the company, who work in four shifts. The whole shift this morning refused to work and I hope that more workers will join," Abubakirov said.

Meanwhile, about 1,000 workers at the Manghystau nuclear power plant have been rallying in the regional capital, Aqtau...to demand higher salaries and better working conditions...