Miners give up their privileges. On Wednesday, the fourteenth … – naTemat

Miners give up their privileges. On Wednesday, the fourteenth … – naTemat

In recent days, the miners have gained support dissatisfied with the government’s actions Ewa Kopacz farmers. • Fig. Dominik Gajda / Agency Newspaper

It seems that the miners decided to prove that in the struggle for their privileges have a lot of good will. At least those of the Coal Company, for which the government in January, Ewa Kopacz has shown a number of concessions. The unions just announced that it agreed to that special privilege was the fourteenth salary paid in installments.

Mining concessions …
Interestingly, the dispute in this regard was not all about the mere fact that the Fourteenth salary payments, but that the number of installments in which remaining in crisis Coal Company proposed transfer of money. The company wanted to increase by a further twelve months regular salaries, but the miners felt that they should have payment in amounts much more interesting for household budgets.

On Wednesday, the miners and the board, however Coal Company negotiated agreement on the fourteenth salary to be paid in two installments. February 13 mining 40 percent credited to your account. “Fourteen” and the remaining 60 percent. but only get to the end of June.

– Given that the board initially suggested that part of the payment of wages of miners in 12 installments, it is very beneficial solution for the crew – said in a Wednesday afternoon Jaroslaw Grzesik of “Solidarity “.

Because” St. Barbara “is not enough
Recall that the last conflict between the government and the miners is related to the fight this embarrassing for the Treasury to keep the branch number of privileges inaccessible to other employee groups in Poland. As explained in naTemat in May last year Tomasz Molga, we are talking not only about the de facto 14 salaries (12 basic, so-called. “St. Barbara” and another award paid in February), but also many years of employment guarantees, early retirement, and often doubled earnings higher than average.

Yes earn monthly in KW. • Fig. zzpd.pl

The detailed breakdown of wages in KW that workers earn is down an average of 6800 zł gross per month, and the lowest-paid government workers 4 7 thousand. month. At the other end of the payroll is a technical staff of the Department of Mining Investment Works. This group earns an average of over 10 thousand. gross per month.

No mercy
much hotter than the protests in KW are those that erupted in JSW. Tuesday night, a group of several hundred people attacked the office of JSW. Building pelted with stones and pyrotechnics, and later came to the assault trial. Situation until late at night soothed with police Jastrzębska including smoothbore shotguns. One person was injured, ten more were arrested.

The riots in front of the JSW. • Fig. BBC

The danger were also journalists who reported these events, which, inter alia, firecrackers were attacked. The station BBC reported that during Tuesday’s riots in the Hawk-Zdroj hooligans supporting mining protests also damaged equipment belonging to it.

Source: RMF24.pl