The person who put this video on YouTube in 2008 wrote about it:
from Romania TVR1-Romanian mine explosion kills 12
This is the way in Romania the guvernment takes care of the Romanian workers, they are first busy to fill up their pockets with
millions of $$$ and latter to take care of workers.Twelve miners died and thirteen others were interned at the Hospital Emergency Petrosani, following two explosions that took place Saturday at the Petrila mine.
From daily The Morning Star in Britain:
Romanian miners’ demo hits day four
Thursday 08 March 2012
Thousands of coal miners employed by a state firm demonstrated for a fourth day in western Romania today over low pay and working conditions.
They mounted their latest protest after talks with managers broke down.
The workers are demanding that the state-owned company, which employs 7,800 people at seven mines, delivers on a January agreement that awarded them a 10 per cent wage rise.
They said they would walk the 205 miles from Petrosani to Bucharest but were foiled by police who blocked a bridge leading out of the city.
And workers in Romania’s mining industry face an even bigger fight in coming years.
The government has agreed with the International Monetary Fund to sack 3,300 mineworkers by 2018 in return for loans.
The appalling situation of Romania’s institutionalized children: From Ceausescu to today: here.
Four miners killed by flooded tunnels
COLOMBIA: Four miners were killed and five were missing today after an accident in a coal mine.
The men became trapped when tunnels at the Deperation mine 150 miles north-west of Bogota flooded and collapsed.
Disaster agency co-ordinator Gilberto Mazo said rescuers were hunting the missing miners, but finding them alive “is not very likely.”
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/116362
Prosecutors issue warrant for ex-MP
ROMANIA: Prosecutors announced on Thursday that they will issue an international arrest warrant for a right-wing MP who fled the country before he was stripped of his parliamentary immunity over a property scam.
They say Mihail Boldea of the Democratic Liberal Party was involved in falsifying title deeds while working as a lawyer. The houses were sold through intermediaries to make money.
Mr Boldea left Romania on March 17, three days before parliament agreed the request to remove his immunity.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/116932
Former PM guilty of corruption
ROMANIA: The country’s highest court has handed former prime minister Adrian Nastase and his wife three-year suspended prison sentences in a corruption case.
Mr Nastase was found guilty on Friday of blackmail but cleared of taking bribes in the case. His wife Dana was found to have taken part in the use of false paperwork at the customs office.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/117316
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