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From Yahoo News - Oddly Enough
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Fri, 8 Nov 2002 19:32:16 GMT
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Workers at a Romanian car factory have decided to
donate sperm to get the debt-ridden plant out of the red, private television
ProTv reported on Tuesday.
"Our feasibility study shows that if 1,000 workers donate their sperm for
several months, we can get enough funds to pay part of the plant's debts," Ion
Cotescu, trade union leader at ARO Campulung, told ProTv.
He said the decision came after reports in the local media said a fertility
clinic in the western city of Timisoara offered donors the equivalent of $50 a
visit. The monthly average wage in Romania is around $150.
The ARO Campulung plant, which makes jeep-style four-wheel-drives, has
debts put at $20 million.
Cotescu told Reuters the sperm donation scheme also amounted to a protest
against the government's privatization authority APAPS which had failed to
find a strategic investor for the plant.
"They always told us to come up with a solution. Now, we have found one that
even the best economists have never thought of. I hope APAPS will like it," he
said.
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