The protest rally that was held yesterday in the organization of the Union of Independent Unions of Mine Workers of the Federation of BiH in front of the building of the governing company of the Public Enterprise Elektroprivreda BiH in Sarajevo has not, for now, resulted in a positive outcome for the miners of the Zenica Brown Coal Mine, who are still waiting for their salary for the month of June, confirmed is the president of the independent trade union RMU Zenica Elvedin Avdić.
The miners, he notes, are at their homes, and they are only doing the necessary services, which ensure that the only production facility, the Raspotočje pit, and when production resumes again, will be safe for the work of the Zenica miners who stopped production on July 26.
“Last week, the director issued a decision on the temporary suspension of work. Only the workers who are obliged to work in cases of production suspension are working. We do not have any new information, and today the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina should be in session, so we expect that something will happen, that is, that they will send a new the request of JPEPBiH to act according to the provisions of the agreement that we signed with the Administration of RMU Zenica on July 3. The agreement was signed as proposed by the Administration, which received guidelines from JPEPBiH, and based on that agreement we were paid the salary for May,” Avdic said.
He adds that workers of necessary services are also at work in the Stara jama mine plant, where production was temporarily stopped in May, also by decision of the management. It was then that the decision was made to transfer the pit workers to the Raspotočje pit, and to prepare a report on the justification of coal exploitation for that pit. It is not known whether the aforementioned study was completed, although it was announced that it should be completed within a month.
