Miners in the Volyn region stopped work from-for debts on a salary and promise in the near future to declare a hunger strike, said on his page on Facebook on the last working day of the week the head of the Independent trade Union of miners of Ukraine Mykhaylo Volynets.

"Let me remind you, a debt on a salary to miners" Mine? 1 "Novovolynsk" is 14, 5 million hryvnia (about 687 thousand dollars), and hope that the miners will give earned, they have already left, for that reason they stopped work and began a protest ", - he wrote.

However, he clarified that the requirement to pay debts up to October 1 - the proper response from the officials of the miners did not wait. For this reason, Miners, as promised, on the last working day of the week stopped working.

This is not the first strike of Ukrainian coal miners because of wage arrears. Before they came to Kiev and staged rallies in the city center, the authorities promised to pay debts.

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