Ukraine: Miners of Inhulska, Novokostyantynivska & Smolinska uranium mines protest over unpaid wages
Summary
Date Reported: 9 Jul 2021
Location: Ukraine
Companies
SE Eastern Mining and Processing Plant - Parent CompanyProjects
Ingulskaya mine - Operation , Smolinska mine - Operation , Novokostyantynivska mine - OperationAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Workers: ( Number unknown - Ukraine , Mining , Gender not reported )Issues
Protests , Living WageResponse
Response sought: No
Source type: News outlet
[Summary translation prepared by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]
"I have not received my salary on time for two years". Miners in Kirovohrad region continue to protest, 9 July 2021
Miners of Inhulska mine blocked Kropyvnytskyi - Kryvyi Rih - Zaporizhzhia road near the village of Berezhynka, Kropyvnytskyi district. The miners protested in Berezhynka because of non-payment of wages, Dmytro Bondariev, head of the independent trade union of mine workers, told Suspilne.
According to Vadym Kosarenko, deputy director of Eastern Mining and Processing Plant, the plant's debts to employees due to the low price of uranium concentrate now exceed half a billion hryvnias.
On 8 July workers of three uranium mines in the region: Inhulska, Novokostyantynivska and Smolinska blocked the road to Uman near the village of Smolino in Novoukrainsky district. Fifty miners were walking across the road day and night.