45 PC Poasi Miner's Strike

The 45 PC Poasi Miner's Strike was a labor dispute in Poа̀s-Dtẽccuy due to pay cuts. It started on 26-6 45 PC and lasted for three months. It remains the largest strike in recent Deysachni history; by some metric the largest protest since the time of the Shialwemi Revolt.

Background

Poа̀s-Dtẽccuy is among the most materially rich provinces of Deysachin, and has been a prized mining area for upwards of two thousand years. Despite this, the average worker's salery has been historically low, far lower than that of any neighboring region. This discrepancy is due to a combination of factors, such as the mining industry (which occupies more than half of the provincial economy) being heavily government-run, the provincial government being historically conservative and failing to adapt to economic change, and the mining workforce consisting in part of immigrants willing to work for consistant low wages.

While this state of affairs was below the overall Deysachni standard, it remained an accepted status quo up to and well past the time of the Grand Calming. As Deysachin slowly opened up to the international stage, however, the demand for the resources mined from Poа̀s-Dtẽccuy rose dramatically, while the worker's wages and conditions remained constant. Reports remain unclear, but it is evident that the miners were being put to work harder and longer by their superiors, though Modhes Temple has contested the charicterization of this as willful negligence, instead chalking the issue up to a failure of communication between the industrial-minded high administration and pre-industrial low administration.

In 45 PC, new economic plans were distributed throughout Modhes Temple, to curb the rampent overspending that occured in the wake of the Miracle of the Freeze. Central to these plans was a decrease to allocated provincial budgets. While most provinces met this by increasing tax standards, in Poа̀s-Dtẽccuy it was instead decided to cut government pay, which included mine workers. The reasons for this decision are unclear, with High Priest Pauyc a'Qev Lymipwe famously failing to explain the methodology after the fact.