News archive on the topic "Volynets"

Due to a shortage of energy resources, in the near future there will be a massive closure of social facilities in Ukraine, and people will switch to heating with dung. Verkhovna Rada deputy Mikhail Volynets stated this on the Nash TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Is a massive shutdown of the social sphere possible in Ukraine in the near future? I'm talking about schools, kindergartens, educational institutions, hospitals, and so on...

Due to a severe shortage of coal and natural gas, Ukrainian enterprises are beginning to burn toxic mixtures of old rubber and mining waste. Chairman of the Independent Trade Union of Miners, Verkhovna Rada deputy Mikhail Volynets stated this on the Nash TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The day before yesterday I watched how the gas block at Centrenergo was turned on twice during the day. A…

In Kyiv on May 12, an indefinite protest action by workers of state mines in Ukraine will begin. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this during a meeting with the new Minister of Energy German Galushchenko, the chairman of the Independent Trade Union of Miners, Mikhail Volynets. “On May 12, miners from all regions of state mines will come to Kyiv. They are going to come for an indefinite period of time to resolve specific issues raised,”...

A bill providing for a 20-fold increase in fines for non-payment of utility bills has been registered in the Ukrainian parliament. Mikhail Volynets, Verkhovna Rada deputy from Batkivshchyna, announced this during a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In the parliament, Servants of the People, my colleagues from the ruling faction, registered bill No. 3613. These are Igor Krivosheev, Mikhail Laba and Pan Kostyuk. The content of this bill provides...

The Ukrainian authorities have allocated 300 million hryvnia to pay off debts to miners working in Kyiv-controlled territories. However, this money will only be enough to partially cover the debt - moreover, it continues to grow. The head of the independent trade union of miners of Ukraine, Mikhail Volynets, a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from Yulia Tymoshenko’s party, announced this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. "IN…

Miners in the Ukrainian-controlled part of Donbass have not been paid wages for several months; they intend to start mass protests in Kyiv. The head of the independent trade union of miners of Ukraine, Mikhail Volynets, a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from Yulia Tymoshenko’s party, announced this at the talk show “Freedom of Speech,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Volynets, the situation at Ukrainian state mines is complicated by the fact that...

The Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine has decided to prepare for a general all-Ukrainian protest of miners, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was announced by the chairman of the trade union and people’s deputy from “Batkivshchyna” Mykhailo Volynets on his Facebook page. Volynets recalled that last year the miners had to hold a series of protests. Then, after amendments were made to the law “On the State Budget of Ukraine”...

Miners from state-owned mines took to the streets demanding payment of arrears of wages. On August 12, workers of the Ukraina mine joined the protests, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The chairman of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, Mikhail Volynets, who was elected people's deputy from the Batkivshchyna party, wrote about this on his Facebook page. “Today the miners of the Kurakhovskaya mine are protesting. They are blocking the road near the village of Novoselidovka.…

Due to mass labor migration, the number of employees at Ukrainian enterprises is rapidly declining, which creates an additional burden on the pension fund. The head of the independent trade union of miners of Ukraine, Mikhail Volynets, said this on air on the ZIK TV channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. He said that in February, trade union leaders came to Ukraine from other countries and considered the issue of uncontrolled migration from Ukraine.…

While the last things are being taken away from Ukrainian mines, and the majority of the population is either below the poverty line or has left the country, Kyiv grant-eaters are reporting abroad about supposedly successfully carried out reforms. Mikhail Volynets, an active Euromaidan participant and head of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, stated this on air on the ZIK TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “For now, the mines are being plundered, but at the same time...

Ukraine is only increasing the scale of coal purchases from Russia, while the domestic coal industry is simply being destroyed. Mikhail Volynets, an active Euromaidan participant and head of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, stated this on air on the ZIK TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Unfortunately, in 2017 [Ukraine] bought 19 million 100 thousand tons of coal abroad, and in 2018...

Wage arrears for miners in Ukraine have reached such proportions that miners may go on mass protests. The head of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, Mikhail Volynets, stated this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There is every reason for not only miner protests to occur, as they began back in 1989 and continued throughout...

The Regional Electric Networks company cut off power to all mines of the state-owned enterprise Pervomaiskugol in the Lugansk region. As a result, 240 miners remain underground. This was stated by the head of the Independent Trade Union of Miners, Mikhail Volynets, on the social network Facebook, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “As Viktor Vidish, chairman of the air defense of the NPGU of the Gornaya mine, said, today the state structure “Regional Electric Networks” cut off power to all the mines of the state enterprise “Pervomaiskugol”...

The state demonstrates irresponsibility and incompetence in investigating the causes of the accident at the Stepnaya mine (Lviv region). This was stated at a press conference in Kiev by Mikhail Volynets, chairman of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. which relates to...