The miners of the Zenica Brown Coal Mines Subsidiary, who went on strike on Thursday afternoon, did not go down to the Raspoto je and Stara jama pits this morning either confirmed to Fena news agency, the president of the trade union ZD RMU Zenica Elvedin Avdi. The union was forced to cancel the general strike that day because of its inability to comply with the legal obligations to organize a general strike, but the miners refused to go down into the pits.
Nobody has changed. The production workers remained the same, the workers didn't go down into the pits. We don't have any announcements about how to solve this situation, said Avdi, who notes that miners come to work just to register.
On Friday, the management ordered that the workers who want to work must declare this in writing, but Avdi adds that the pit workers do not want to return to work until they receive their wages. In the first four months this year, director Mensur Huki told the press conference that he planned to produce 147,841 tons of coal, but only 62,512 or 42.3 percent of the plan was achieved.
Huki said the blocking of the mine's account was in the amount of 4,673 358.81 BAM, while they lacked 1,401,000 KM for the payment of the requested salary.
At the time, Huki asked the miners to return to work, saying every worker s disobedience, every suspension of production causes great damage to RMU Zenica and all employees.
If the problem is in himself, he added, his resignation is available if the problem is in himself.