Russia: Miners striking at Red Cap mine demand better working conditions, face intimidation
Resumo
Data informada: 19 Jan 2022
Localização: Rússia
Empresas
JSC Sevuralboksitruda - Subsidiary , RUSAL - Parent CompanyProjetos
Red Cap mine - OperationAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 123
Trabalhadores: ( 123 - Rússia , Mineração , Gender not reported )Temas
Fair & Equal Wages , Protestos , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Trabalho: geralResposta
Response sought: Não
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
Resumo
Data informada: 19 Jan 2022
Localização: Rússia
Empresas
JSC Sevuralboksitruda - Subsidiary , RUSAL - Parent CompanyProjetos
Red Cap mine - OperationAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores: ( Número desconhecido - Rússia , Mineração , Gender not reported ) , União: ( Número desconhecido - Rússia , Mineração , Gender not reported )Temas
Intimidação e Ameaças , Dismissal , ProtestosResposta
Response sought: Não
Tipo de fonte: 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.