The state-owned fertilizer producer Belaruskali has announced its readiness to recruit the striking miners again, Tut.by reports.
“The management of the enterprise made a decision to lift disciplinary sanctions from employees, and those dismissed earlier can be recruited back to work if they submit appropriate applications,” the company said in a press release.
Members of the Belaruskali strike committee stated that they did not agree with this formulation, since none of the workers “did not write letters of resignation and did not commit deliberate absenteeism”.
“Our clear firm position sounds like this: to restore to the previous workplace with the removal of all disciplinary sanctions and immediately begin to fulfill all the demands of the strike committee. This is the end of violence, the release of political prisoners and new fair elections,” said committee member Yuri Korzun. p>
Belaruskali announced that it continues to cooperate with the Norwegian company Yara on the safety of working conditions and improving the social level of workers.
Yara, one of the main trading partners of the state-owned enterprise, expressed concern about the situation in Belarus, the fate of the dismissed and serving sentences of miners.
Earlier, the former presidential candidate of Belarus Svetlana Tikhanovskaya urged not to buy Belaruskali products, “so that the money from these enterprises would not go to the Lukashenka regime.”
Mass protests continue in the country against the official results of the presidential elections, according to which the incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko won 80 percent of the vote. “Belaruskali” dismissed 49 workers who took part in the strike.