Yesterday morning in the Trans-Baikal Territory, 33 miners from the Darasunsky mine went on a hunger strike, and by the middle of the day the number of strikers had almost doubled. Mine workers demand payment of wages for May and June. The total debt of the employer to the miners is 35 million rubles. The owner of the enterprise claims that the bank refuses to execute the payment order for transferring money to pay wages to the mine workers from the own funds of Uryumkan LLC, which includes the Darasunsky mine. At the mine itself, they note that the bank refuses to transfer money because of Uryumkan's loan obligations.
The strike of workers at the Darasunsky mine (part of the structure of Uryumkan LLC, engaged in the extraction and enrichment of the ores of the Darasunsky gold deposit) began yesterday morning. As Kommersant was told at the enterprise, at 9 am, 33 miners, who had notified the mine administration in advance of their decision to start a hunger strike, settled down near the building of the mining department. “People demand to pay their wages for May and June,” the company said.
The head of the administration of the Tungokochensky district, Mikhail Gornov, went to the strikers. “When I arrived in the village of Vershino-Darasunsky, the number of hungry people increased to 60 people. They are sitting at one of the administrative buildings of the enterprise. People are not going to leave the territory of the plant, they took sleeping bags with them to the strike. They were given a room where they could spend the night,” Mr. Gornov told Kommersant. He persuaded the miners to suspend the strike for two or three days, but they refused. “During this time, the issue of transferring money from Promsvyazbank should be resolved,” Mr. Gornov believes. The head of administration also said that the employer's total salary debt now stands at about 35 million rubles.
Vitaly Koidan, General Director of Uryumkan LLC, told Kommersant that in 2017, when the Darasunsky mine became part of the company's structure, negotiations were underway between the owner and Promsvyazbank on lending to the mine in the amount of 800 million rubles. “This decision gave a chance to launch the enterprise. However, in the fall of 2017, the bank began reorganization, and the issue of lending was postponed indefinitely. All this time, the Darasunsky mine lived at the expense of our company's own funds,” Mr. Koydan told Kommersant. He added that now, for reasons unknown to him, the bank refuses to execute payment orders to the mine from Uryumkan's own funds. “We wrote a letter to the bank, there is no official answer yet. One of these days the credit committee should meet, we are waiting for its decision,” Vitaliy Koidan noted. According to Mikhail Gornov, the credit committee of Promsvyazbank already considered this issue last week. Despite the fact that the regional governor Natalya Zhdanova petitioned for a positive decision, the bank refused to pay. According to the general director of the Darasun mine, Yevgeny Rogalev, Promsvyazbank refuses to transfer money because of Uryumkan's loan obligations.
The bank is insured. "Uryumkan" took out loans for $50 million, $8.9 million should be repaid this year, but the bank assumes that the company will not repay this amount, and therefore the funds are not sent to the Darasunsky mine at all, "- quotes Mr. Rogalev" Chita .RU".
The general director of Uryumkan said that the search for an investor is ongoing. “We got the enterprise in a ruined state, with outdated equipment. Of the three mines, only Yugo-Zapadnaya operated. After the fire in 2006, no restoration work was carried out at the Tsentralnaya mine. Uryumkan is working to restore the mine and pump out water,” he said. Vitaliy Koidan also said that the factory is undergoing modernization, work is underway to re-evaluate reserves.
This is not the first strike at the Darasun mine. In May 2017, more than 80 miners refused to leave the mine until their salaries were paid. In September 2017, more than 50 miners went on strike again. At the same time, the owner of the enterprise changed - the Chelyabinsk company Yuzhuralzoloto sold the asset to the Chita LLC Uryumkan.
Yevgeny Sinelnikov, senior assistant to the prosecutor of the Trans-Baikal Territory, told Kommersant that on July 16 supervisory authority made a representation to the management of the enterprise in connection with non-payment of wages. According to him, the prosecutor's office is considering the issue of bringing the employer to administrative responsibility under Art. 5.27 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (non-payment of wages).
The Investigative Committee of the ICR for the Trans-Baikal Territory began a pre-investigation check at the enterprise.
Ekaterina Eremenko, Irkutsk
Workers of the Darasunsky mine hold a protest action.
In the Trans-Baikal Territory, the hunger strike of the miners of the Darasunsky mine continues for the second day, which was joined by about 50 people. It is attended by both employees of the enterprise, to whom the employer delays wages, and previously laid-off employees, dissatisfied with the amount of the dismissal calculation. The miners intend to continue the action until they are paid in full. According to the regional government, today the first tranche in the amount of 11.8 million rubles was received on the accounts of the Darasunsky mine, in total, 38 million rubles are required to pay off debts.
By the second day of the hunger strike by the miners of the Darasun mine, the number of participants increased from 20 to 50 people. One participant was taken to the hospital in an ambulance in the morning: the woman's blood pressure jumped sharply. The miners settled in assembly hall administration of the Vershino-Darasunsky village of the Tungokochensky district and intend to continue the campaign until the employer pays them in full. The reason for the hunger strike was the delay in wages and non-payment of benefits to the dismissed to reduce and pay in full.
This is not the first protest at the Darasun mine. The miners were already on strike in May 2017, when 80 people refused to leave the mine due to disagreements with the management of the enterprise over the amount of their wages. The conflict at the mine was resolved only after the governor of the region, Natalya Zhdanova, visited it. To persuade the miners to come to the surface, she had to go down into the mine herself. The presidential envoy to the Siberian Federal District, Sergei Menyailo, also visited the strikers. At the end of the conflict, the owner of the Darasun mine, Yuzhuralzoloto, decided to lay off most of the company's employees.
The mine itself is in the process of changing ownership, the Chelyabinsk company Yuzhuralzoloto, which previously owned it, is selling it to Uryumkan LLC in Chita.
According to the official statement of LLC " Management Company"Yuzhuralzoloto", the sale and purchase agreement between the company and Uryumkan LLC was signed on August 15, 2017. “SGC does not bear full responsibility for the ongoing events. Uryumkan LLC deals with all management issues, ”the company’s official statement said. “It is too early for us to ask these questions, we are not yet owners,” Kommersant was told in Uryumkan when asked when the miners would receive their salaries. They said that the deal has not yet been completed, the documents on it are being approved by the Federal Antimonopoly Service.
The press service of the government of the Trans-Baikal Territory on Tuesday evening reported that the first tranche in the amount of 11.8 million rubles had been received into the company's accounts, without specifying who exactly transferred the money. “In the near future, the first payments to employees will begin,” assured Alexander Kulakov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the regional government. For the full repayment of debts, according to regional officials, 38 million rubles are needed.
As a source in Yuzhuralzoloto told Kommersant, on Monday the company received a letter with a notification that 15 employees of the Darasunsky mine from September 18 begin a hunger strike due to non-payment of wages, which they were supposed to receive on September 15. “That is, the delay was three days,” the interlocutor of Kommersant noted.
In his opinion, the protest is connected with the desire of the miners to draw attention to the mine, which is currently in a state of conservation.
A Kommersant source also said that Yuzhuralzoloto paid off almost completely with all the laid-off employees. The head of the Tungokochensky district, Makhmet Izmailov, told Kommersant that among the starving there are both miners and laid-off workers of the enterprise. “The dismissed believe that the employer paid them off at an underestimated coefficient. The court is now considering several hundred applications to this effect, ”he told Kommersant. Also, Mr. Izmailov said that, according to him, since the beginning of the strike, Yuzhuralzoloto had transferred 5 million rubles to the mine. to pay the wages of miners. He claims that Yuzhuralzoloto promised to pay off the rest of the starving people by September 25. According to the prosecutor's office of the Trans-Baikal Territory, 454 people were fired from July 24 to August 4, the amount of the enterprise's debt to them is being specified.
Today in the Trans-Baikal Territory 33 miners of the Darasunsky mine went on a hunger strike. By the middle of the day, the number of strikers had almost doubled. Mine workers demand payment wages for May and June. The total debt of the employer to the miners is 35 million rubles. The owner of the enterprise claims that the bank refuses to execute the payment order for transferring money to the mine from the own funds of its owner Uryumkan LLC. At the mine itself, they note that the bank refuses to transfer money because of the owner's credit obligations.
The strike of workers at the Darasunsky mine (part of the structure of Uryumkan LLC) began this morning. As Kommersant was told at the enterprise, at nine in the morning, 33 miners, who had notified the mine administration in advance of their decision to start a hunger strike, settled down near the building of the mining department. “People demand to pay their wages for May and June,” the company said. “When I arrived in the village of Vershino-Darasunsky, the number of hungry people increased to 60 people. They are sitting at one of the administrative buildings of the enterprise. People are not going to leave the territory of the plant: they sit with sleeping bags. They were given a room where they could spend the night, ”said Mikhail Gornov, head of the administration of the Tungokochensky district, to Kommersant. According to him, the issue of transferring money from Promsvyazbank to pay off the debt should be resolved within two to three days.
The employer's salary debt, according to him, is about 35 million rubles.
Vitaly Koidan, General Director of Uryumkan LLC, told Kommersant that in 2017, when the Darasunsky mine became part of the company, negotiations were underway between the owner and Promsvyazbank on lending to the mine in the amount of 800 million rubles. “This decision gave a chance to launch the enterprise. However, the bank began reorganization, and the issue of lending was postponed indefinitely. All this time, the Darasunsky mine lived at the expense of our company's own funds,” Mr. Koydan told Kommersant. He added that he did not know why the bank refused to execute payment orders to the mine from Uryumkan's own funds. “We wrote a letter to the bank, there is no official answer yet. One of these days the credit committee should meet, we are waiting for its decision,” Vitaliy Koidan noted. According to Mikhail Gornov, the credit committee of Promsvyazbank already considered this issue last week and refused, despite the fact that the regional governor Natalya Zhdanova petitioned for a positive decision.
According to the general director of the Darasunsky mine, Evgeny Rogalev, Promsvyazbank refuses to transfer money because of Uryumkan's loan obligations.
“The bank is insured. "Uryumkan" took out loans for $50 million, this year they should repay $8.9 million, but the bank assumes that the company will not repay this amount, and therefore the funds are not sent to the Darasunsky mine at all," Chita quotes Mr. Rogalev .RU".
Promsvyazbank itself stated that the bank had never financed the Darasun Mine project of the Uryumkan Group of Companies. However, the bank said that "it is ready to conduct a constructive dialogue and, together with the owners of the Uryumkan Group of Companies, find the optimal solution to the problem."
This is not the first strike at the Darasun mine. In May 2017, more than 80 miners refused to leave the mine to the surface. In September 2017, more than 50 miners went on strike again. At the same time, the owner of the enterprise changed: the Chelyabinsk company Yuzhuralzoloto sold the asset to the Chita Uryumkan.
Yevgeny Sinelnikov, senior assistant to the prosecutor of the Trans-Baikal Territory, told Kommersant that on July 16 the supervisory authority submitted a submission to the management of the enterprise in connection with non-payment of wages. According to him, the prosecutor's office is considering the issue of bringing the employer to administrative responsibility under Art. 5.27 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (non-payment of wages). The pre-investigation check at the enterprise was started by the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Trans-Baikal Territory.
Nine hunger-strike participants at the Darasunsky Rudnik LLC gold mining enterprise in the Trans-Baikal Territory were taken to the district hospital today due to pressure problems. The miners went on a hunger strike on July 24 due to non-payment of wages.
"For some, the pressure dropped to 110, for others it rose to 160, 83 miners continue to participate in the protest action, in total 92 people supported the hunger strike," Andrey Mikheichev, a mining drilling and blasting foreman, told Interfax.
According to him, the miners intend to continue the hunger strike and seek repayment of wage arrears.
The head of the enterprise, Yevgeny Rogalev, left for Chita, where he will meet with the presidential envoy to the Siberian Federal District, Sergei Menyailo, and the governor of the Trans-Baikal Territory, Natalya Zhdanova.
In turn, the press service of the regional Ministry of Health reports that during the first day of the strike, the condition of the people was satisfactory. On July 26, after another medical examination at the enterprise, nine people were taken to the district hospital for a more thorough examination and a decision on their possible hospitalization.
"People complained of dizziness, malaise due to high blood pressure," the report says. Inspection of miners on hunger strike is carried out twice a day by a paramedic local hospital village of Vershino-Darasunsky. Earlier it was reported that the miners of the Darasun mine LLC went on a hunger strike, demanding the repayment of wages.
As of July 24, 2018, wage arrears for May-June 2018 to employees amount to about 32 million rubles, Interfax clarifies.
"IN last time, in the month of May, all the miners were given 1340 rubles each, everyone thought that this was an advance payment. Since then they have stopped paying. Today, my husband's salary arrears are about 200 thousand rubles, he has not even received vacation pay yet," said the wife of one of the workers, Yulia Shchukina.
Earlier it was reported that an administrative offense case was initiated against the Darasun Mine company under Art. 5.27 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation ("Non-payment of wages on time by a person previously subjected to administrative punishment for a similar offense"). Checks of the incident were organized by the territorial body Federal Service for labor and employment and the regional department of the RF IC, TASS clarifies.
In recent months, this is not the first performance by the miners of the Darasun mine. On May 17, about 80 employees of the enterprise went on strike and refused to leave the mine. Before that, the management said that the miners would be paid only 30% of their salaries due to failure to fulfill plans. In April the miners went on strike again. Then they wanted to cut their salaries by half, but after the protest they were paid in full. At the same time, Sergei Menyailo, the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Siberian Federal District, came to the mining village. In September 2017, about 50 former mine workers went on a hunger strike for several days due to delays in paying salaries. It was reported that on September 19-20, people
In Transbaikalia, the miners of the Darasunsky mine suspended their hunger strike after they received wages for May, but they continue to strike. According to Andrey Mikheichev, mining foreman of drilling and blasting operations, if they are not paid wages for June by July 30, the hunger strike will continue.
On the morning of July 26, ten of the 92 starving miners at the South-Western mine of the Darasunsky gold mine in the Trans-Baikal Territory were hospitalized, Sibir.Realii reported, citing Andrey Mikheichev, an underground mining foreman, who participated in the action.
According to him, the rest of the miners are not going to stop the hunger strike.
As Mikheichev said, the starving miners are under the supervision of a doctor. According to the results of the morning examination, ten people were diagnosed with high blood pressure, after the necessary medical procedures in the hospital they will return and continue the hunger strike. The city of Darasun is located near Chita.
Why did the miners go on a hunger strike?
The mine workers for a long time dissatisfied with regular salary delays and their size. But the hunger strike itself began on July 24, after a representative of the company that owns the Uryumkan mine threatened to turn off the electricity in the mine and flood it.
By this time, the miners had not been paid for almost three months.
Initially, 55 employees went on a hunger strike, by the end of the working day the number of hungry people had increased to 92 people. Miners' wives take part in the action.
How do administrations and authorities react?
According to the correspondent of "Sibir. Realii", over the past day, no one entered into negotiations with those who went on a hunger strike. On the morning of July 26, the director of the mine, Yevgeny Rogalev, left for a special meeting with the governor of the region, Natalya Zhdanova.
The local prosecutor's office opened an administrative case on the fact of delayed wages, the total amount of debt exceeds 34.3 million rubles. Rogalev said the day before that the company has no money to pay employees due to the fact that Promsvyazbank stopped financing the deal to buy the mine.
According to him, the mine went to the new owner in a poor technical condition, out of five mines, only one was able to start working, the income from which does not exceed 10 million rubles. They, according to Rogalev, are not enough for anything.
He also stated that he sent letters to various authorities, including the head of the region and the FSB, with a request to facilitate the resumption of funding.
New owner
In autumn 2017, Yuzhuralzoloto, the former owner of the mine, sold 100% authorized capital LLC "Darasunsky mine" of the company "Uryumkan". According to the director of the mine, the purchase was supposed to be financed by Promsvyazbank, but did not do this in full. The press service of Promsvyazbank reported that the bank had never financed the project of the Darasunsky mine of the Uryumkan group of companies.
According to the mine administration, Technical equipment mines are worn out by 90%, and only one of the five mines is in working order.
Not for the first time
In total, 400 people are employed at the mine. And the enterprise itself is a city-forming for the Vershino-Darasunsky settlement.
Early March 2018 former employees gold mine went on a hunger strike after layoffs in January to demand compensation. According to the miners, more than 100 people did not receive the money.
