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Hundreds of coal miners protest in Ukraine over lack of pay – The Militant

By Brian Williams May 31, 2021 Over 500 miners from state-owned coal mining operations in Donetsk, Volyn, Lviv and Luhansk protested at government offices in Kyiv May 12 over months of government nonpayment of wages. The main demands of the miners, the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine (NPGU) said, are for the government of Volodymyr Zelenskyy to pay 2 billion Ukrainian hryvnia ($73 million) of outstanding wages and drop draft laws targeting trade union rights. “You cannot humiliate people who work in dangerous conditions, who risk their lives every day,” NPGU Chair Mykhailo Volynets said at the demonstration. Nonindustrial workers in the mining sector, many of whom are women, veterans and other workers with wages lower than miners, are also fighting to get unpaid wages.

Uranium, iron ore miners in Ukraine strike over jobs, back pay – The Militant

By Roy Landersen January 18, 2021 Some 5,000 uranium miners at three mines in the Eastern Mining and Processing Plant in the Kirovograd region of Ukraine went on strike Dec. 16, organizing protests that blocked traffic on the main roads around the mines. The workers, members of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, demanded months of back pay amounting to $3 million. They also organized a delegation of miners Dec. 9 to protest outside the Cabinet of Ministers and Office of the President of Ukraine in Kyiv, the capital. The miners suspended their actions Dec. 24, after funds for paying their November wages were transferred to the enterprise’s account by the government, with a promise December wages would be paid by the end of the month. The company, idled since Dec. 7, was to restart production Jan. 4. If work doesn’t resume then “miners will continue their protests,” said Dmytro Bondariev, head of the indep

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