(Tamuna Chkareuli /OC Media)
Despite a new labour safety bill, Georgia’s construction sites remain a deathtrap for workers. [Read more…]
In pictures | Georgia’s deadly construction sites
Miners protest to save Tkibuli coal mine
Protest at Mindeli mine shaft on Tuesday (Iberia TV)
A small group of miners gathered on Tuesday in front of the Mindeli mine shaft in the central Georgian town of Tkibuli demanding the administration of the company that owns the mine step down but insisting that operations should continue. Four died and six more were injured in an explosion in the mine on Monday. [Read more…]
Georgian supermarket employees forced to purchase outdated products
Nikora supermarket (Robin Fabbro/OC Media)
Four employees of supermarket chain Nikora have accused the company of violating their labour rights, saying the management required them to buy outdated products from their stores. On Friday, the company’s director Davit Urushadze confirmed the reports to TV Imedi but claimed employees were made to purchase only outdated products they had failed to remove from shelves.
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Tbilisi court indefinitely bans metro strike ‘during working hours’
Protest on Tuesday in front of the central Rustaveli Metro Station (Shota Kincha/OC Media)
Tbilisi City Court has indefinitely banned drivers from the Tbilisi Metro from going on strike. Protesters gathered on Tuesday in front of the central Rustaveli Metro Station in support of the drivers, with unions vowing to go ahead with the strike and to take the case to the Constitutional Court. [Read more…]
Georgia’s Agara sugar factory to be reopened after workers march
Workers protesting against the closure of the Agara sugar factory on 20 April (Dato Parulava /OC Media)
A sugar factory in Agara, a town west of Tbilisi, is set to reopen after dozens of workers marched 110 kilometres to Tbilisi in protest its closure. An agreement to renovate the factory and reopen it on 1 June was announced on Wednesday, several days after the march. [Read more…]
Workers march 110 km to Tbilisi demanding reopening of sugar factory
(Dato Parulava /OC Media)
Several dozen workers from a sugar factory in the town of Agara, west of Tbilisi, have marched 110 kilometres to the capital and are demonstrating outside the Government Chancellery building. The factory suspended operations in November after the company claimed their sugar was no longer competitive amidst growing imports from Europe. [Read more…]
Miners demand ‘temporary halt’ to coal mining in Tkibuli
Protest in Tkibuli on 11 April (newposts.ge)
A group of coal miners from Tkibuli have demanded that Saknakhshiri GIG, the company that owns the mines, temporarily shut down operations in order to improve safety conditions. [Read more…]
Six miners killed in Georgia’s Tkibuli coal mine
A mine in Tkibuli (Radio Tavisupleba)
Six miners died and three more were injured on Thursday morning in a coal shaft collapse in Tkibuli, in central Georgia. Four miners were killed in the same mine last May, causing outrage. [Read more…]
Georgia’s parliament adopts labour safety law
Rally calling for stricter labour rally, Tbilisi, February 2018 (Luka Pertaia /OC Media)
Georgia’s parliament has adopted a bill on labour safety in its third and final reading after facing pressure from labour rights groups. All 88 MPs present voted in favour of the bill, in a plenary session on 7 March.
1,300 workplace deaths and injuries in Georgia since 2010
Worker in Chiatura (Mari Nikuradze /OC Media)
Over 1,300 workers have been killed or injured in occupational accidents in Georgia over the past eight years, according to official statistics. [Read more…]
