Almost three hundred miners at coal mines Paroseni, Vulcan and Lupeni on Monday reached the company’s headquarters to join the protests staged by miners at the Lonea coal mine. Union leaders on Monday set off talks with the company’s management.
Almost 50 of the 300 miners at the Lonea coal mine refused to go down Monday morning and decided to head for the coal company CNH and call the company management to account. Miners said their rights were breached and the protocol approved by former Economy Minister Ion Ariton, which resolves major issues in the mining sector, was not observed.
Last week, union leaders met with Economy Ministry officials for talks on miners’ demands. A new round of talks is scheduled on Tuesday when unionists and ministry officials are set to find solutions to miners’ problems.
In January this year, the Economy Ministry signed a protocol with the unions representing miners of CNH Petrosani, regarding the payment of a new tranche of severance pay to workers laid off in 2011. The ministry said at the time that the protocol resolved issues regarding the payment of the third tranche of severance to personnel laid off in 2011, the personnel deficit created by departures for retirement in 2012, and created the legal framework to set the delivery price for coal back in relation to the company’s production costs.