| The example of the miners of Khakassia inspired their Donbass colleagues Yesterday, more than 700 workers of the mining equipment plant, part of the Rostovugol association, went to a rally demanding the repayment of multimillion-dollar wage debts. At the same time, nine miners went on an indefinite hunger strike. The example of the Khakassian miners, who held the loudest May protest and achieved that the republican budget undertook to repay the debt to them, seems to have revived the strike movement in the Eastern Donbass.
First, former employees of the now liquidated Obukhovskaya OJSC and the Obukhovskaya Concentrating Plant CJSC boarded the rails. As a result, the buyer of the production capacity of the bankrupt mine was unable to ship coal for four days, incurring daily losses of 3.5 million rubles. And only after the prosecutor’s office of the city of Zverevo, Rostov region, opened a criminal case for blocking transport communications (Article 267 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the picketers stopped their protest in exchange for the commitment of local authorities not to take measures of criminal and administrative prosecution against them. The most interesting thing is that the retired miners were no longer seeking the traditional repayment of wage debts that were paid three or four years ago, but the payment of penalties, penalties on penalties, and even compensation that took into account changes in the dollar-ruble exchange rate. In particular, this is why they did not meet any sympathy from the Don authorities, who previously often made concessions to coal miners in order to prevent a social explosion in the region. Some of the picketers calculated compensation in the amount of 300-700 thousand rubles, which was tens of times more than the “body” of the paid salary debt.
In turn, workers at the mining equipment plant are currently only demanding payment of delayed wages. Moreover, they were owed by two bankrupt companies at once: the liquidated OJSC Rostovugol (4.5 million rubles) and the company Rostovugol LLC (27 million rubles), which rented the plant’s property for more than a year. But if OJSC Rostovugol is already at the final stage of the bankruptcy procedure (an auction for the sale of its four profitable mines is scheduled for June 15), and wage debts to miners will be repaid by the liquidation commission this week, then LLC Rostovugol is only at the beginning." bankruptcy" path. Igor BURAKOV, Rostov-on-Don |
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