According to the press service of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, on December 15, miners from all over Ukraine will gather in Kiev and picket the buildings of the government quarter. The miners' demand is to pay off wage arrears, which by the end of the year will amount to almost 3 billion hryvnia.
“335 million hryvnias allocated to pay wages this week do not resolve the issue of closing the wage debt. Of these funds, part of the debt was paid only to underground workers. And what about those employed on the surface, who last received their wages in August ?! ”- ask the trade union.
The miners are determined because they are tired of promises and want to celebrate the New Year with the money they received and at the festive tables.
The Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine has once again called on the authorities to “stop bullying the miners and give them their honestly earned hard and dangerous work.
Let's remind that on Wednesday, December 8, 300 million hryvnias were transferred to the state mines of Ukraine to pay salaries to miners. This amount is the second part of the funds allocated in accordance with the amendments to the State Budget on the additional direction of one billion hryvnia for payments to miners.
Also it was reported that on Thursday, December 9, the State Ecological Inspectorate of Ukraine filed a claim for more than 430 million hryvnias to the Buzhanska Mine enterprise of the Volynugol association for the illegal mining of more than 50 thousand tons of coal.
