While miners are not paid their wages, the state decided to recover over 70 million UAH from Volynugol for not meeting the coalmining plan. Volynugol had to mine 200 million UAH worth of coal for the customer, having received the 90% prepayment, but the miners failed to provide the required amounts of coal. “The miners…
On November 27, 21 miners of the Buzhanskaya mine went on strike. The miners of the third and the fourths shifts remained underground. The protest started after salary was not paid. “The Buzhanskaya miners were not paid August salary in full, and only 10% for September, with nothing for October”, the chairman of the Independent…
The ex-director of the state enterprise Volynugol will pay for the damages done to an employee by illegal firing. According to the Novovolynsk city-district court, the claim of the regional prosecutors has been granted. Now the state enterprise, represented by its ex-director, has to pay 24.5 thousand UAH to the employee as the average salary…
The court allowed selling the property of the state enterprise Volynugol because of its debts, as it had not been paying land tax. According to the head of the State Fiscal Service department in Volyn region Svetlana Savchuk, despite the 4.5 billion UAH payments to the budgets of all levels in January-October, there is a…
Miners of the Novovolynskaya No. 9 and Buzhanskaya mines have been striking for two days, refusing to go underground. They demand payment of salary for July and August. They also want Alexander Zorin to remain the CEO of the state enterprise Volynugol. According to some sources Andrei Pilipyuk could become a new general director. The…
The situation at the state enterprise Volynugol has been discussed at the region state administration. According to the administration chairman Vladimir Gunchik, the Volynugol results are by far not the best among coal industry enterprises. “Coal mining has dropped by 57 thousand tons”, he said. The miners haven’t been paid salary for 1.5 months. “That’s…
According to the energy expert Andrey Gerus, in June and July miners were not paid salary. “And that’s in the country where in the tariffs the coal price is the highest in the world – Rotterdam+”, he said. He has asked the Ministry of energy and coal industry and trade unions if they are not…
Volynugol ordered Zakhystprom Trade LLC the delivery of filtering equipment valued at 3.23 million UAH. By the end of the year the company will have supplied 340 self-rescuers at 9500 UAH apiece. In April Lisichanskugol bought similar self-rescuers from another supplier at 8326 UAH apiece, or 12% cheaper. In Russia, according to Lvivugol, such self-rescuers…
