The production workers of the Zenica Brown Coal Mine, who did not go down to their pits even in the first shift this morning, gathered again in front of the company’s Administration building and asked Director Mensur Hukić for information about the outcome of yesterday’s meeting in Sarajevo.
The miners, after organizing a one-hour warning strike before starting the first shift in the first four days of last week, on May 25, in the second shift, they started a labor strike, which they have not stopped yet.
“I no longer have to tell you to come. You, the people, decide for yourself whether you want to come or not,” said the president of the Zenica Brown Coal Mines Union, Elvedin Avdic.
He said that the director only told them that yesterday at the meeting of the competent authorities from the Government of the Federation of BiH and the Public Enterprise Elektroprivreda BiH, they said that “we are working on finding a solution”.
“They want people to go to work, and then we will sit down and negotiate. People should be paid and then, if it takes 15 days, sit down and negotiate. People cannot work without a salary and I no longer have the nerve to convince them that they are coming,” said Avdic.
The meeting ended around 7:50 a.m., and the dissatisfied miners left the mine and went home.
