Salary arrears exceed UAH 2 billion.
In the Lviv region, the workers of the Chervongradskaya mine refused to leave the mine, demanding payment of salaries. Employees of the state enterprise “Lvovugol” protest against delays in payments. It is reported that the first shift remained underground.
The striking miners were not paid three monthly wage funds.
The strike of Ukrainian miners was announced by the head of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine Mikhail Volynets.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine, state-owned enterprises owe 2.3 billion hryvnias to miners.
As Volynets says, by January 1, 2022, the debt will exceed 2.3 billion hryvnia. Some are not paid a salary for 6-7 years.
Experts have already called non-payment of salaries to Ukrainian miners a “criminal offense” committed by the state.
Now there is a robbery from the pocket of the working people, theft of social security, taxes, said Anton Leppik, secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation.
“It is only unclear that some cases of theft are punishable, and wage theft, for some reason, does not lead to criminal punishment,” the expert was outraged.
According to Topnews, in the Listvyazhnaya mine, where 51 people died, two more miners remained underground. The rest of the bodies were lifted. The daughter of one of the miners received his phone number and found out that his father lived after the explosion and helped colleagues. His body was found near the exit.