One miner has already been found and taken to hospital after a 15-hour long rescue operation at the Bielszowice mine, southern Poland, following a Saturday morning tremor. The search for a second miner continues.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Moraiecki has forwarded condolences to the families of two miners killed in an accident in the Myslowice-Wesola coal mine in southern Poland on Thursday.
Two miners were killed in an accident in the Mysłowice-Wesoła coal mine in southern Poland on Thursday, the city's mayor has said.
The number of miners of the Polish Mining Group (PGG) holding an underground protest has grown to over 400 according to unionists.
The Polish Mining Group (PGG) said on Thursday that the situation regarding large-scale coronavirus infections among miners is getting much better, as 78 percent of infected miners have so far recovered.
Coal mines are particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus and the government expects high numbers of detected infections in the next 8-10 days, Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki said on Tuesday.
The total number of miners confirmed with coronavirus infection stood at 3,640 on Tuesday morning, coal companies are still receiving the results of large-scale coronavirus testing, information provided by sanitary services coal industries has shown.
Unionists at Polish Mining Group (PGG) signed a six-percent wage hike agreement with company management on Friday, following short negotiations carried out on Thursday, aided by a deputy prime minister.
A miner sought by rescue teams after a Friday tremor in the Rudna copper mine in southwestern Poland is dead, the mine-owning KGHM copper company has informed.
PM Mateusz Morawiecki on Monday in Katowice, southern Poland, commemorated the 38th anniversary of the December 1981 Wujek massacre, in which communist riot police killed nine protesting miners in the city's Wujek coal mine.
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