Miners from Public JSC Lviv Coal Company (Sokalsky district in Lviv region) will picket outside the presidential administration of Ukraine on January 15, the company's trade union has said.

"We demand that wage arrears be paid and that wages be increased according to the current legislation, that shipments of our own coal concentrate, bought by Lviv Coal Company from state-run Volynvuhillia, be allowed, that the closure of Lviv-Volyn coal basin be banned, and that Zakhidenergo receive permission to extract coal from the Lviv-Volyn coal basin," reads the company's press release.

The trade union said that the enterprise's employees have not been receiving wages since October 2012 and the company is on the verge of bankruptcy and closure.

In June 2012, the employees of Lviv Coal Company picketed Lviv Regional State Administration. According to the miners, the picket brought no results.

"We will picket the presidential administration of Ukraine from 1100 on January 15 until we get a guarantee that our demands will be satisfied," the trade union said.