Ukraine: Families of Kryvyi Rih iron ore plant miners allegedly being followed and threatened
摘要
日期: 2020年10月6日
地点: 乌克兰
企业
PJSC Kryvyi Rih iron ore plant - Subsidiary , Metinvest - Parent Company项目
Kryvyi Rih plant - Operation受影响的
受影响的总人数: 数字未知
工人: ( 数字未知 - 乌克兰 , 采矿 , Gender not reported ) , 朋友/同事/被迫受迫害的人家属: ( 数字未知 - 乌克兰 , 采矿 , Gender not reported )议题
恐吓和威胁 , 监视 , Work & Conditions回应
Response sought: 否
信息来源: News outlet
[Summary translation prepared by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]
Miners in Kryvyi Rih protesting underground for over a month due to low wages. Their families being followed by unknown people, management of the plant calls protest a crime - reportage, 06 October 2020
On September 3, workers of Oktyabrska mine of Kryvyi Rih Iron Ore Plant started an indefinite underground protest - they demand higher wages and complain about difficult working conditions. Thirty-two miners did not come to the surface after the shift, blocking the operation of the mine. In a few days, they were joined by the miners of three more mines of the same combine, in total almost four hundred people protested underground. The leaders of the plant first accused the protesters of losses due to the layoff and threatened with a lawsuit, and now they promise to raise wages up to 25 percent. The miners do not trust the management, and the families of some of them have reported pressure and surveillance.
Mykhailo Volynets, a people's deputy and head of the Independent Trade Union of Miners, is convinced that miners' families are persecuted by the plant's management.