Kremikovtzi Management Reaches Agreement with Protesting Workers

Workers in Kremikovtzi steel mill staged yet another protest over unpaid salaries. Photo by BGNES
The management of Kremikovtzi announced they will take all measures necessary to pay the August and September salaries to the workers in the steel mill, who staged yet another protest on Tuesday morning.

"The management said they need to hold more meetings, including with Vorskla Steel and the Ministry of Economy and Energy," Reneta Petrova from the KNSB trade union said after the discussions.

Vorskla Steel, the company of the Ukrainian tycoon Konstantin Zhevago, announced Monday it is planning to annul its contract with the troubled factory, which was signed in August and provides for work with raw materials supplied by Vorskla.

"The workers have become accustomed at organizing strikes instead of working," the company's Executive Director for Bulgaria, Victor Demyanyuk, had declared in connection with the unions at the mill staging rallies over unpaid salaries.