Miners mine " ipb " of the hunger strike near the presidential administration of Ukraine because of unpaid wages, They told beskrajnost, said in the independent trade Union of miners of Ukraine.

About the strike of Miners said last Wednesday. They also promised to initiate a national strike and threatened to block the route at the border line with Poland." Five commissioners of labour collective of the mine "Novovolynsk" No. 1 sixth day fast under the presidential administration of Ukraine, seeking the payment of wage arrears. The miners announced an indefinite hunger strike and will not go from Kiev until, until will not receive specific answers to all problematic issues, "- reports RIA "Novosti" letter of the Union. According to the report, the Miners get a definite answer, when and in what terms the miners pay was earned because They have not been paid 3 months and owe it to the team already is over 14, 5 million hryvnia (about 673 thousand Dollars). This is not the first strike of Ukrainian coal miners from-for debts on a salary. Before They came to Kiev and staged rallies in the city center, the authorities promised to pay debts. A week ago, about a hundred miners mine No. 1 "Novovolynsk" (North-West of Ukraine), and was intimidated before, blocked the highway Kovel ? Lviv near the bridge over the river Western bug.

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