[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.