In Primorye, 83 miners announced a hunger strike

In the Primorsky Territory, the hunger strike of the Rakovsky coal section announced.

According to the press service of the regional police department on Monday, on Friday 69 miners began a protest in the section of the section of the section, on Sunday another 14 miners joined them, Interfax reports.

Hungry coal miners require complete repayment of wage arrears for August-November 2003 and April-May 2004, as well as the return to the incision of their work books, which are located with the employer in Vladivostok.

In May, a group of miners Rakovsky already held a hunger strike with a demand to return the money earned to them, but the wage debts were repaid only partially.

The strikes of miners throughout Russia began in the first perestroika years

The miners are forced to do this by salary debts, disgusting working conditions, and the closure of the mines themselves. Last fall, the protest rally was held by the miners of the largest North Ural bauxite mine in Russia.

The labor dispute resulted in an underground path: more than 500 miners lived underground for a week at a depth of 770 meters. They refused to rise to the surface. Shakhters demanded to increase the salary from 7 to 30 thousand rubles and reduce production standards. It was possible to achieve only an increase in salaries and only by 35 percent - up to 11 thousand rubles.

In the summer of 2002, the All-Russian Protest Protest Protest was held. 5 days miners from Vorkuta, Kuzbass, Chelyabinsk, Severouralsk, Sakhalin and the Rostov region picked the building of the Ministry of Energy in Moscow, rally on a hunchback bridge at the government building. Every half hour, the miners knocked on the asphalt, but then none of the representatives of the state apparatus came out to them.

The miners also blocked the railway of Moscow-Vergkut. They wanted to draw the attention of the government to the state of the coal industry. They said that the equipment at the mines is obsolete, it is dangerous to work, they do not pay salaries for several months, the standard of living of miners is extremely low, a miner who worked for 30 years in difficult conditions, a pension - about 2 thousand rubles.

In the winter of 2000, the miners of the Egorshinskaya shaft of the Ugric Association of Vakhrushev-Avoal "went on strike underground for almost a month, a week starved. The miners owed 100 thousand rubles. The miners stopped the protest after the mine administration decided to pay each Shakhtar 15 thousand rubles each, and promised to give the remaining part of the debt with the next salary.

In the summer of 1998, the miners of the Nagornaya mining department announced the hunger strike in the city of Partizansk of the Primorsky Territory. The miners spent the night in the director of the director, and he himself was left hostage. The miners demanded to pay them a salary. As eyewitnesses said, the action passed calmly, no incidents happened.

And in Severouralsk, one of the strikes of miners ended in a scandal. The local television studio showed the plot about the action - and was immediately closed.