{"id":12264,"date":"2018-02-22T00:27:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T00:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=12264"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T14:56:10","slug":"major-victory-for-the-94-ukrainian-miners-facing-court-for-protesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/22\/major-victory-for-the-94-ukrainian-miners-facing-court-for-protesting\/","title":{"rendered":"MAJOR VICTORY FOR THE 94 UKRAINIAN MINERS FACING COURT FOR PROTESTING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In a follow up to an earlier posting, we are pleased to be able to report a\u00a0victory for Ukrainian miners. This article was first posted at the Ukrainian Solidarity Campaign\u00a0<\/strong><b>website at:-\u00a0https:\/\/ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org\/2018\/02\/21\/major-victory-for-the-94-ukrainian-miners-facing-court-for-protesting\/<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MAJOR VICTORY FOR THE 94 UKRAINIAN MINERS FACING COURT FOR PROTESTING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/22\/major-victory-for-the-94-ukrainian-miners-facing-court-for-protesting\/victory-for-94\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12265\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12265\" src=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/victory-for-94.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/victory-for-94.jpg 567w, http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/victory-for-94-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profspilkaNPGU\/?hc_ref=ARTODW-gQWMoEoU9ruqMF_lyPGJDBu7qoOpprfwTI_1Wgs73rEB0a-MDnj8U-KCorek\">Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0 has secured a major victory for the 94 miner facing court proceedings. \u00a0\u00a0The miners at the uranium mine \u201cIngulska\u201d were facing court after protesting for months of unpaid wages.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This followed a major campaign in which the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign \u00a0in which Labour MPs plated a key role \u00a0in assisting the miners.\u00a0 Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn responded to the news declaring \u2018Well done this shows what solidarity can achieve\u2019.\u00a0<strong> \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>An early day motion was submitted by Clive Lewis MP in support of the miners and supported by Labour leader\u00a0Jeremy Corbyn, the miners case was raised during the 20 December parliamentary debate on Ukraine by\u00a0Khalid Mahmood MP.<\/p>\n<p>After two hearings and challenges by the miners union the case was held in Kropyvnytskyi and dismissed without hearing the employer&#8217; claim against the miners.<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine and the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine Mykhaylo Volynets made a comment:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do appreciate the solidarity and support that we received from our trade union brothers and sisters and partners during this struggle\u201d.\u00a0 On behalf of members of NPGU, I want to thank you for support and help!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">_______<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">see earlier article at:-<a href=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/21\/94-ukrainian-miners-on-trial-for-union-protest\/\">\u00a0http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/21\/94-ukrainian-miners-on-trial-for-union-protest\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a follow up to an earlier posting, we are pleased to be able to report a\u00a0victory for Ukrainian miners. This article was first posted at the Ukrainian Solidarity Campaign\u00a0website at:-\u00a0https:\/\/ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org\/2018\/02\/21\/major-victory-for-the-94-ukrainian-miners-facing-court-for-protesting\/ &nbsp; MAJOR VICTORY FOR THE 94 UKRAINIAN MINERS FACING COURT FOR PROTESTING &nbsp; The Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine\u00a0 has secured a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1843,1852,1855,1854,910,1848],"tags":[8882],"class_list":["post-12264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-capitalists-organise","category-how-communists-organise","category-exploitation-and-emancipation","category-the-left-crisis","category-trade-unionism","category-ex-ussr","tag-author-ukrainian-solidarity-committee"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"views":2005,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12264"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17469,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264\/revisions\/17469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}