Ukranian Miners On A Plain

Seventy-four mine workers at Kommunarskaya Coal mine No22 in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, took the decision to stay underground after having finished their first shift today in protest over wage debts, the Ukrainian information agency UNIAN reports.

A Donetsk department for the Central state paramilitary rescue sevice headquaters say workers from two units refused to go up to the surface and remained at K3 diagonal pit shaft. “All the miners are feeling well at present, with on-site physicians watching over their health condition,” the mine-rescue workers report.

With their wages still unpaid and their financial tense situation remaining unresolved, workers from of two other mines in the region have resorted to similar industrial action recently, Ukrainian informantion agencies report. On 12 April miners at the Makeevka mine plant refused to leave the pits and stayed underground after the second shift and on 17 April, over 60 miners from the Donetsks mine construction public corporation protested against their unpaid wages by staying underground after their second shift on 17 April, Ura-Inform Donetsk news agency reports.

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