BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA: Miners go on hunger strike over management staffing

Record ID: 341196

  • Title: BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA: Miners go on hunger strike over management staffing
  • Date: 3rd September 2013
  • Summary: DJURDJEVIK, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (SEPTEMBER 3, 2013) (REUTERS) DJURDJEVIK COAL MINE MINERS SITTING IN FRONT OF ENTRANCE TO MINE PIT MINERS SITTING AND TALKING MINE MANAGEMENT HEADQUARTERS (SOUNDBITE) (Bosnian) ZIJAD RAHIMIC, MANAGER OF DJURDJEVIK COAL MINE, SAYING: "Some 125 metres below the ground surface workers of the first shift stayed yesterday in one chamber, and
  • Embargoed: 18th September 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Topics: Industry,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAC7H9OSNXAA4BS4PE6Q6VHR0DG
  • Story Text: Around 140 miners have barricaded themselves 250 metres below ground at a mine in northern Bosnia on Tuesday (September 3) and went on hunger strike in a row over recruitment and pay.
    Workers at the Djurdjevik mine, near the town of Tuzla, are angry at the hiring of an administrative official, which they say violates an agreement with the government to hold off recruitment of non-production staff until the wages of miners can go up.

    "We do whatever we can to persuade these people to leave the pit and to protect their health, and also to fulfil their legitimate demands", said manager or the mine Zijad Rahmic.
    The union has long complained over pay, conditions and delayed modernisation plans at the mine.
    The Djurdjevik brown coal mine, operating under an umbrella of Bosnia's top utility EPBiH employs more than 1,000 workers and churns out around 600,000 tonnes of coal per year, supplying the nearby Tuzla coal-fired power plant.
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