According to RZD OJSC, the strike started today by a number of members of locomotive crews (participants of a so called independent trade union) is illegal, RZD informs. Today in the morning the members of the locomotive crews of Pushkino and Zheleznodorozhny (Moscow Railway) started the strike which resulted in violation of schedule at Yaroslavl and Gorki directions. According to preliminary estimations, 14 locomotive crews which participate in the strike make 5% of all locomotive crews working at the above directions. The company reports that the participants of this illegal strike are members of a so called independent trade union numbering some 1,100 persons.