/ world immediately information/ The protest and starvation strike of the miners from the manganese mine in Obrochishte ended late final night time after they signed a collective labor settlement with the manager director of the concessionaire firm David Wellings. The doc was handwritten by ombudsman Maya Manolova, who performed a key function in yesterday’s troublesome negotiations. Underneath no 1 within the contract, the dedication of Wellings from April 1 to extend the salaries of all 230 workers within the mining advanced “Euromangan” EAD by BGN 158 was spelled out.
It took the general public defender almost 4 hours to persuade the corporate’s CEO that he ought to preliminary the collective bargaining settlement. As well as, Manolova managed to win vouchers for meals and for the times on which time beyond regulation was labored, medical examinations, a rise from 23 cents to 30 cents an hour of pay for the night time shift, mineral water and refreshments for the miners on the second shift. Their insistence on free transport to the office was additionally happy, because the events agreed that till common transport “Euromangan” EAD is restored, it should pay the employees BGN 12 for transport prices per 100 km. of a automobile upon presentation of the related paperwork and after inspection. The times of the protest – from March 9 to 23, 2017, will likely be charged as paid depart, and people of the miners who do not need the best to such – as unpaid.
Workers at Euromangan EAD begin work immediately.
The intervention of the ombudsman got here after greater than two weeks, no state establishment paid consideration to the folks’s protest. Final Friday they despatched a grievance to the general public protector and yesterday morning she arrived on the web site to study in regards to the points and their requests. The night time earlier than – on Wednesday, a staff of specialists from the Ministry of Vitality (ME) went all the way down to the mine to search out that the underground advanced was “in good situation”. The place of the power division was that there have been no violations within the concession contract. This provoked a robust discontent among the many miners, and the 2 specialists had been loudly booed.
After severe efforts all through the day by the ombudsman for a gathering with a consultant of the corporate within the late afternoon, it passed off, with the help of the MoE.
The dialog across the negotiating desk continued lengthy and tensely, with a number of occasions the dialogue was on the verge of breaking off. The employer’s place appeared adamant that the miners’ calls for had been unrealistic. At 5:30 p.m., a 5-member staff from the labor inspection in Dobrich arrived and handed him a summons to current paperwork. The staff defined that for years they’ve been making an attempt to achieve somebody from the corporate’s administration, however the non-public safety guards don’t permit them. They thanked Maya Manolova that it was her presence that “opened” the door for them they usually might partially do their work.
At 20.00 David Wellings agreed to signal the framework contract settlement, which the ombudsman drew up in his personal hand and signed as a witness.
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