On January 17, part of employees of the United Water Supply Company went on strike in Chiatura. They request increase in salaries and improved working conditions. At this moment, part of Chiatura population and mines of Chiatura Manganese are not supplied with water.
“Our safety is not protected when we work here; electricity wires are scattered on the ground and we have to walk across the water-pond to get to electricity plug. We informed the administration about the situation here but nothing was changed for better,” the strikers said.
Service center’s manager Giga Kiparoidze said: “Employees of the division, which supplies Chiatura Manganese with water, went on strike. I will meet them and study reasons of their protest in details.”
The employees are not going to stop strike until their requests are satisfied.
Mari Tabidze, Chiatura