The plight of the metal-workers from Bulgaria's troubled steel mill Kremikovtzi remained unchanged Thursday for the seventh day in a row.

The workers demand clarity regarding the mill's future, payment of their overdue salaries, which they say they have not received since November, and compensations for over 2 000 of their colleagues, who are to be dismissed by the end of June.

The trade unions accused the Cabinet of negligence and threatened Thursday more aggressive actions including a national steel mill industry strike and a tent camp in downtown Sofia.

"They definitely underestimate us because we are too calm. For months already the workers from "Kremikovtzi" demonstrate that they are polite and well-behaved people and citizens of this State, but when the State turns into an evil step-mother, we will change our ways too," Lyudmil Pavlov, leader of the "Podkrepa" trade union at the mill is quoted as saying by Darik radio.

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