Bulqize, 2nd day of hunger strike

The Syndication asked the company to fulfill all requests and after the deadline they attempted to force themselves into the mining premises for continuing the protest, but were stopped by police.

Outside the building, the miners protested this Tuesday in support of their colleagues. The protest has continued for two months, interrupting the work in the galleries of the concessionary ACR Company.

The second hunger strike started this Monday morning, organized by the miners’ syndication. The Leading Council of the Miners’ Syndication decided to start the second hunger strike, since they had no answer to their requests.

The syndication leader explained the reasons why the miners are isolated in front of the mine entrance. The Syndication and the ACR Company agreed for all economic demands, except the miners’ request for changing the director of the enterprise.

Syndication against Minister Naco 

The Economy Minister declarations against the syndications that are leading the Bulqize Mine have had a harsh reaction as response.

In a press release, syndication leaders accused the Minister of Economy, Nasip Naco, and said that the Ministry he leads has its hands tied due to the financial tangents and the flirts with the ACR Company.

The syndication says that the Minister should demand ACR to implement the concessionary investments agreement and open a new perspective for this source, rather than trying to pressure and threaten the syndication and miners with trials, which not only have no legal value, but are a shameful falsity that comes from an irresponsible Minsiter, who is taking innocent lives every day with the wrong actions and the lack of actions for closing the abandoned galleries, for the closure of which the Albanian government has paid several times, such as in Kukes, Tropoje, Baterr, Bulqize, Librazhd and Pogradec.

Meanwhile, the strike in Bulqize continues and the miners are gathering each day in front of the ACR building, waiting for their reaction. In the last talks, the parties agreed for every clause of the agreement, but ACR doesn’t accept to dismiss the mine director, as one of the miners’ requests.

The miners have been protesting for economic demands for more than two months. Although it has seemed several times that they were about to find a common language, the agreement has never been signed.

The “Decometal” representatives discussed with the syndications and reached a verbal agreement. The ACR Company announced through a press release that the miners who would not interrupt the strike, would be fired. This brought the reaction of the syndications who sued the ACR Company for violating the strike law.  

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