The head of the Independent Union of miners of Ukraine Mykhailo Volynets said miners Mine " krasnoarmeiskugol ", located in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on Kiev-controlled territory, went on spontaneous strike because of debts on a salary.

"Today the miners of the first shift of the Mine "Central" SE "krasnoarmeiskugol" Donetsk oblast staged a spontaneous strike because of unpaid wages. The debt is more than six months ", - Volynets wrote on his page on the first day of the week.

He said that there is a possibility that the striking miners to join the miners of the Mine of Dmitrov.

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

And in the middle of October the miners " Mine? 1 "Novovolynsk" had blocked the highway Kovel-Lviv, Volyn region, demanding payment of debts on a salary for 3 months, after went to the presidential administration of Ukraine, where he declared an indefinite hunger strike. Arrears of wages to the miners of the Mine was approximately 687 thousand dollars. The head of Ministry Vladimir Demchyshyn said that the money for the Mine workers did not stand out, because mine are not mined and sold coal during the state of the program.

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