Employees of the state enterprise Lvivugol have blocked the road to the customs checkpoint of Rava-Russkaya on the border with Poland.
The miners demand being paid salary for September and October.
Some 40 miners participated in the strike.
The police have agreed with the strikers to let cars through every 15 minutes.
The miners also want the Ministry of energy and coal industry to cancel its order on Lvivugol reorganization and provide funds to modernize the Stepnaya and Mezhdurechenskaya mines. (Ukrainian metal)