Solidarity with the miners of Chervonohrad (Lviv)
The Network
Since February 2024, the 6,000 miners of Chervonohrad have not been paid.
On June 8, 2024, the Chervonohrad regional union of the Independent Miners' Union of Ukraine KVPU declared:
"The unpaid wages not only aggravate the financial difficulties of the mining families, but also negatively affect the moral and psychological state of the employees and increase social tensions in the production teams and in the region, and also deprive the possibility of helping more than 800 company employees who are in the Ukrainian armed forces and to whom the miners provide everything necessary (ammunition, drones, cars, etc.)."
In addition to their work at the mine, the miners are forced to find other employment to ensure their subsistence and that of their families. "
At the beginning of August, miners from the Lviv state enterprise demonstrated in Kyiv in front of the Ministry of Energy, demanding payment of their six months' wages, but to no success.
Since February 24, 2022, the International Trade Union Network for Solidarity and Struggle, whose members include some one hundred trade union organizations from Africa, Europe, Asia, and Americas, has been actively supporting the Ukrainian people in their resistance to large-scale imperialist aggression by the Russian Federation, and in particular the trade union organizations involved in this resistance.
Today, our network lends its support to the miners of Chervonohrad and their trade union organizations, and demands that the government immediately take all necessary measures to ensure that all wages are paid to mine workers, because, in addition to the dramatic social consequences for thousands of workers and their families, this situation weakens Ukraine's capacity to resist Russian imperialism.
August 8, 2024
International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggles
