The miners insist on approving the draft law on amendments to the decree “On the state budget of Ukraine in 2018” to provide 2.8 billion UAH to the coal industry. “This will allow us buying machinery and equipment and keep jobs”, Mikhail Volynets, the chairman of the Independent Miners Union of Ukraine, said. The miners…
The Belarusian heavy vehicles manufacturer BelAZ, VIST Group, and Region 24 have signed a trilateral agreement on creating a robot system for mining operations. The document was signed during the international trade fair Innoprom 2018 in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk region, Russia, BelAZ representatives reported. BelAZ specialists are hard at work creating new mining vehicles to meet…
The Ministry of energy and coal industry reports that it has transferred 324 million UAH of state support to the state coal enterprises to pay salary to miners. “On July 9 the minister Igor Nasalik held a working meeting on the urgent issues of paying salary to state coal miners and the further actions to…
Because of the critical situation at the state coal enterprises, the Independent Miners Union has prepared an address to the president, prime minister and the Verkhovnaya Rada chairman. According to the union chairman Mikhail Volynets, the main problems in the industry are the wage debt growth totaling over 1.1 million UAH, the decrease of coal…
Up to 1 thousand miners are striking near the building of the Verkhovnaya Rada demanding their salary debts to be cleared. They make noise by hitting their helmets on the road. They also carry banners with the inscription of “We do not demand what is not ours. We have come for our salary”, “Give us…
Nikolai Kovalchuk, an employee of the Novovolynskaya-10 mine, who took part in the underground strike demanding salary debts to be cleared, ended up in the hospital. According to Mikhail Volynets, chairman of the Independent Miners Union of Ukraine, he suffered from vomiting and bleeding. Kovalchuk has been taken to the hospital by the mining rescuing…
39 miners for more than a day refuse to return to the surface at the Novovolynskaya-10 mine in Volyn region, demanding their salary debts to be cleared. According to Vasiliy Pradid, the chairman of the Independent Miners Union of the mine, the miners ask the salary debts for April-June to be cleared. He did not…
Employees of the state Novovolynskaya-10 mine refused to return to the surface as a sign of protest against the non-payment of wages. “The miners of the first shift remained underground. Later their colleagues of the second shift joined them. All in all there are 47 people underground now”, Mikhail Volynets, chairman of the Independent Miners…