>From July 2nd to July 18th the workers of the private processing plant �Yanovskaya� in the city Krasny Luch (Lugansk region, Ukraine) were on strike for their demand to pay out the wage debts for some past months as well as for 2008. The workers, in their majority women, founded a strike committee and an independent trade union and under their leadership even blocked the railway leading to the plant. The result of this strike and the blockade was pay out of their wages for March and partly April 2009. And all participants in the strike who were dismissed before by the management were employed again on their former workplaces.
However, after that the local authorities together with the plant management started to take revenge on the strikers by taking up the chase again. The proprietors decided to get rid of the organizers of the protest with any random means and to stop any attempt of a workers� struggle for their rights in the future. They instituted legal proceedings against the organizers of the strike, demanded to recognize the struggle of the workers as �illegal� and to punish them.
The trial against the activists was launched on 28 July and will be renewed on October, 9. With criminal means the leaders of the strike committee and the union leadership of the plant Anatoli Moskaljov and Anna Antroptschenko are prosecuted.
We emphatically protest against this repression and demand to stop any legal and criminal prosecution of the workers� activists of the enriching plant �Yanovskaya�!
We ask to send letters of protest to the following addresses:
1) High Court of the Ukraine
ul. P. Orlika 4
Kiev, Ukraine, 01024;
e-mail: supcourt@scourt.gov.ua
2. Chief Public Prosecutor of the Ukraine
ul. Riynitskaza 13/15
Kiev, Ukraine, 01001
3. State Regional Administration of the District Lugansk
Pl. Geroev VOV 3
Lugansk, Ukraine, 91016;
e-mail: gubernator@loga.gov.ua
Solidarity messages send, please, to the address: rabochkom@ua.fm
Yours faithfully,
Coordination Council of workers` movement of Ukraine (KSRD)
Edition of the newspaper � Worker`s Action�
http://proletar.org.ua
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