Miners went on strike in the “Ukrainian” Donbass - they demand wages, as under Yanukovych
Miners from five mines at the Krivoy Rog iron ore plant, located in the Kiev-controlled part of the Donbass, went on strike, demanding an increase in wages to the same level as before the Euromaidan victory.
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“The entire night shift of the Rodina, Gvardeiskaya, Ternovskaya and Krivbasshakhtoupravlenie mines, as well as 10 miners of the Oktyabrskaya mine, did not go to the surface! Miners are demanding higher wages. The miners understand that recently no funds have been allocated for the development of enterprises, but have only been squeezing out resources,” says the head of the Independent Trade Union of Miners, Mikhail Volynets.
“A joint appeal to the company’s shareholders was adopted. It contains only one requirement - to increase wages for workers in basic professions to the 2012 level, that is, the equivalent of $1000. Now for many miners it is about 10 thousand hryvnia, and for workers in auxiliary professions - 3 thousand hryvnia (less than 400 and a little over 100 dollars respectively). The miners explain the need to increase wages by rising tariffs for gas, electricity and housing and communal services, as well as rising prices for food and essential goods...
The administration is trying to explain the actions of the protesters with political motives, because it considers the level of wages to be already high, and threatens the protesters with various penalties, including the closure of one of the mines and the dismissal of its workers and, thus, increasing the wages of the workers of the other three mines. The miners were outraged by the management’s statement that the action was paid for by Russia,” Volynets added.
It should be noted that Volynets himself, who criticizes the authorities today, is a former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the party of Yulia Tymoshenko. Volynets took part in the coup d'etat - the so-called. Euromaidan, which resulted in civil war and devastation in the Ukrainian economy.
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