Almost thirty laid-off miners closed the mine in the settlement of Vershino-Darasunskiy (Chita region) went on hunger strike from-for delays of payments for the reduction. This was reported by the portal “submedia” Monday, September 18.
Protester Inna Babenko told the newspaper that payments are not received about 500 miners, which reduced in July and August. “The owner of the mine promised that compensation will include the salary, but this did not happen. 500 people were on the street without any means,” said the woman.
The miners hold a rally near the city administration and require to repay debt.
According to Babenko, the 17 dismissed employees wrote a collective statement to the Prosecutor’s office appealed to the labour Inspectorate and the presidential envoy in the Siberian Federal district Sergei Menyailo, but received no response.
In the regional Department of the Investigative Committee began checking on the fact of non-payment of wages more than 20 employees. Detectives seized the necessary documentation.
In a press-service of the Governor of edge led RIA Novosti news Agency words of the head of Transbaikalia Natalia me that “people were forced to take this extreme measure, since the payments according to court orders are not made for several months.” In the message, the situation with wage arrears is called tyranny by the management of the mine, and the hunger strike — an act of desperation.
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Zhdanov noted that the working group for resolving issues with payments were created in may, when nearly 80 people at the mine “South West” Darasunskiy mine refused to rise to the surface in protest (then the wages in April has not received 873 miner). After this action in the direction of Rudnik, OOO “Management company UGC” (group of companies “Yuzhuralzoloto”) announced the closing of the mine.
In August of 2016 in the Rostov region declared a hunger strike, the miners of the group of companies “Kingcol”. The reason was the salary arrears of 300 million rubles. According to investigators, the CEO of “Kingcol” Vladimir Pozhidaev has not paid wages to 156 workers from March to December 2015, and also illegally sold the coal, causing damage to the suppliers in excess of one billion rubles.