About thirty miners of the only remaining production facility of the Subsidiary company Rudnici uglja Zenica, who went down to the “Raspotočje” pit yesterday in the second shift, spent the night underground, and the management of the company forbade the other miners who came to work last night in the third shift to go down into the pit – confirmed the president of the Independent Trade Union ZD RMU Zenica Elvedin Avdić.
Yesterday, the miners of Zenica stopped production again in the second shift, and the reason is the delay of the salary for June, the deadline for payment of which was yesterday. Miners who went down into the pit in the second shift to secure the construction site on the “broad front”, decided to remain in the pit until further notice and thus express their protest.
”The miners spent the night in the pit, and the management of the company forbade borrowing lamps and going down into the pit to the other people who came in the third shift last night. No one gave us anything in writing about that decision, but that’s how the manager of the Raspotočje plant informed people. They are probably afraid that even the miners who come down now will decide to stay in the pit. It is only allowed that the members of the inspection service and the workers who work on the water pumps charge the mining lamps for moving around the pit, which is an obligation in order to maintain the pit during the suspension of production,” points out Avdić for Fena.
He adds that the miners of today’s first shift have also arrived at the company, but the workers who worked at the “Stara jama” facility, which stopped coal production two months ago, initially only temporarily, did not go down to the pit either.
The Presidency of the Association of Independent Unions of Mines of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, led by President Sinan Husić, will hold a meeting in Zenica today and address the public.
