Around 140 miners from Djurdjevik ended a three-day sleep-in strike on September 4 after obtaining promises that their salaries and the management would be reviewed.
Elvira M. Jukic BIRN Sarajevo
The strike ended after negotiations with Elvedin Grabovica, director of Elektroprivreda, the power company that controls the mines.

Earlier, the miners spent two nights 250 metres deep in the ground, pressing demands for salary rises and new management.

The miners want the managers of the mine to be dismissed and their salaries harmonized with other employes of the power and mines company consortium.

“We can respect some of their demands but the management cannot be changed in this way,” Grabovica warned on Tuesday.

But he said the management might be removed and new ones appointed once the company had prepared and elaborated the reasons.

Grabovica meanwhile pledged to review workers’ salaries.

Media reported that during the strike two miners sought medical treatment on Tuesday due to the poor conditions in the mine shafts.

There were warnings that the miners were risking their lives by staying so long, deep underground. Balkaninsight