Russia: Miners striking at Red Cap mine demand better working conditions, face intimidation
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 19 Jan 2022
Standort: Russland
Unternehmen
JSC Sevuralboksitruda - Subsidiary , RUSAL - Parent CompanyProjekte
Red Cap mine - OperationBetroffen
Total individuals affected: 123
Arbeiter: ( 123 - Russland , Bergbau , Gender not reported )Themen
Fair & Equal Wages , Demonstrationen , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Arbeit: AllgemeinAntwort
Response sought: Nein
Art der Quelle: News outlet
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 19 Jan 2022
Standort: Russland
Unternehmen
JSC Sevuralboksitruda - Subsidiary , RUSAL - Parent CompanyProjekte
Red Cap mine - OperationBetroffen
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Arbeiter: ( Number unknown - Russland , Bergbau , Gender not reported ) , Gewerkschaft: ( Number unknown - Russland , Bergbau , Gender not reported )Themen
Einschüchterung & Drohungen , Dismissal , DemonstrationenAntwort
Response sought: Nein
Art der Quelle: News outlet
[Summary translation prepared by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]
123 Ural miners refused to come up from underground, 19 January 2022
Miners in Severouralsk at the Krasnaya Shapochka mine went underground last night and went on strike. People are demanding better working conditions and fairer wages.
- One of the demands is to raise wages and rates by 50%," Valery Zolotarev, Chairman of the Independent Trade Union of Russian Miners at the Severouralsk Bauxite Mine, told us. - The workers are also seeking the cancellation of compulsory work on Saturdays...
In response, according to Valery Zolotarev, the employers made a list of all the strikers, forbade the canteen to issue food for them and to bring supplies underground at all. In addition, all the rioters were promised to be fired as soon as they went back upstairs.