Mineworkers at five mines controlled by iron ore producer PJSC Kryvyi Rih Mining, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, have refused to climb out of the shaft after a night shift and demanded a payrise, Mykhailo Volynets, chairman of Confederation of Trade Unions of Ukraine, said.
“The whole night shift at Rodina Mine, Gvardeyska mine, Ternovska mine, and Krivbas Mining Directorate, joined by 10 miners from the Oktiabrska mine did not rise to the surface. The miners are demanding an increase in wages,” Volynets wrote on his Facebook page on May 4.
“Miners understand that recently, funds were not assigned on development of the [mining] enterprises, only extracting resources [from the mines]. Miners never stopped working. Currently, they are holding meetings underground,” he said.
He went on to reveal that first shift miners had also gone underground.
Volynets emphasized that the Independent Union of Miners of Ukraine will do the best it can to help the miners have their demands realized.
“The management of Kryvyi Rih Mining, to which the mines belong and where the miners are on strike, is going down together with the bosses of the mines to see the miners and give [them] briefings,” Volynets added.
