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Miners on strike in Chiatura, Georgia

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Mine workers in Chiatura. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–About 600 miners in western Georgia have gone on strike, demanding that the management fulfills a promise made during a strike last year.

In Chiatura, eomployees at Itkhvisi, Shukura, a factory and a mechanical workshop warn that if their demands aren’t met, about

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Two drowned in Georgia mine accident

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Mine workers in Chiatura pictured during the strike in November, 2012. (DFWatch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Two mine workers have drowned in a mine in Chiatura as result of an accident as water flowed up while they were drilling in an old mine.

Roland Nozadze, 51, shift leader, and Iuza Samkharadze, 49, worker, died as result of an accident. Two other

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Behind the battle lines of a miners' strike

Georgian miners have been on strike for three weeks, and spirits are still high. It's now or never, they reckon. (DFWatch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The miners in Georgia are not giving up as they enter their fourth week of protest in the village Chiatura.

More than 3600 workers demand a substantial pay rise and improvement in their slave-like working conditions. They started protesting

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Chiatura miners on strike descend on Tbilisi

Chiatura miners on strike Thursday went to Tbilisi for another round of negotiations that ended without solution. (DFWatch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Workers in the mining town Chiatura are keeping up a several weeks’ long protest. Part of them have moved to the capital to rally outside government bodies and the owning company’s offices.

The parliamentary election gave hope to workers all over

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