The number of miners declared a hunger-strike from-for delays of payments in the settlement of Vershino-Darasunskiy (Zabaykalsky Krai), increased to 50 people. About it reports “Submedia” on Tuesday, September 19. One of the protesters was hospitalized from Assembly hall of the village administration with high blood pressure, said a participant Inna Babenko.
Protest of laid-off employees of the gold mines began on Monday, September 18. They stated that with the reduction in July and August has not received payment of wages and compensation. “500 people were on the street without any means,” — quoted by the local portal Babenko.
The Prosecutor’s office of Zabaykalsky Krai stated that the company-owner of the mine did not pay with 454 employees, fired from 24 July to 4 August. The exact amount of the debt to the miners in the Supervisory Agency did not name.
“Management company UGC” (enters into group of companies “Yuzhuralzoloto”) has told RIA Novosti that they are not involved in a conflict situation: supposedly now the mine’s new owner. In may the company was closed, and in August sold to “Urutkan”. The President “Juzhuralzolota” Konstantin Strukov told Forbes that the sale was “forced” the illegal mining of the precious metal. However, on September 19, the deal is not yet completed.
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In a press-service of the head of the region said that the owner is still listed a part of means for repayment of debts. “Received the first tranche in the amount of 11.8 million rubles promised the owner of 38 million rubles. In the near future I plan to start the first payment of arrears to employees”, — quotes the portal of the first Vice Prime Minister of the government of Transbaikalian edge Alexander Kulakov.
In may employees of the gold mine Vershino-Darasunskiy mine have already held a protest over unpaid wages. Then, around 80 miners refused to come up from the mine to the surface. The strike was stopped after the intervention of the Governor of Transbaikalia Natalia me, and the promise of the administration of the enterprise to repay 554 employees.