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Workers of Ukrainian state-owned coal mining enterprise Selidovugol who are not engaged in industrial activities have been on a hunger strike for nine days, demanding that their salaries be paid, head of the Independent Trade Union of Ukrainian Miners Mykhailo Volynets said on Thursday

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 10th January, 2019) Workers of Ukrainian state-owned coal mining enterprise Selidovugol who are not engaged in industrial activities have been on a hunger strike for nine days, demanding that their salaries be paid, head of the Independent Trade Union of Ukrainian Miners Mykhailo Volynets said on Thursday.

Selidovugol is located in the part of the Donetsk region that is controlled by Kiev.

"The hunger strike of the workers of the non-industrial group has been going on for nine days at the state owned enterprise Selidovugol .

.. They have been owed a salary for September, October, November and December 2018, and there is a debt over the past years," Volynets wrote on his Facebook page.

Workers in Ukrainian coal mining companies have organized numerous strikes since 2015, demanding that their salaries be paid and protesting the closure of mines. In October, Volynets reported that the overall salary arrears in the Ukrainian coal mining industry accounted to over $40 million.