It’s Jastrzębska the Coal Company, Katowice Coal Holding and Coal Company. At any rate of unionization, the number of trade unionists generally attributable to employees, more than 100 per cent., As part of the employees belong to more than one organization. The Polish coal mines of Silesia running them together over a hundred. In the same JSW, after the last year, there are 10 new compounds, the number of organizations reached 50!
The Czech company OKD, the only one in our southern neighbors coal mining company, with annual output is more than 9 million tons (as much as in Bogdanka or KHW and slightly less than in JSW) operate only three compounds. – On their maintenance devote several million kronor a year – says DGP Marek Síbrt, a spokesman for OKD. In terms of our currency is not more than 1.5 million zł.
Although zł 40 million is the amount undeniably useful, especially as pertains to companies employing only 90 thousand. people, their managements do not complain about the funding of trade unionists. – Cost of maintenance of these organizations is not a fundamental problem of mining companies – says Jarosław Zagórowski, president of JSW. – The problem is that, according to Polish law, the compounds are able to block any change in the company. And in a capitalist firms that are unable to adapt to the changing reality, simply disappear from the market – explains the head of JSW group.
The amounts Coal Company and JSW spent on trade unions, are much higher than in the richest Polish company, which is KGHM. In Lubin activities of trade unions of the company budget transferred 9.8 million zł.
This is due largely to the fact that because the mining compounds abound on power, increasing the number of their activists , which – according to the Polish law – has kept the company in which they operate. JSW in the aforementioned full-time is now up to 103 union leaders. According to data from the company, federal internship most of them more than 15 years. This means that these people probably would not be able to return to the profession, which previously cultivated. Besides, every fourth of union activists in JSW already lived the age at which pension rights acquired. Indeed, this applies not only to the company.
It is not surprising that the heads of the unions mining companies are often people who have done their jobs with great places to make money in the absence of any responsibility. And worst of all – mining harm.
Of course, radically different is the opinion of the same union, that the good of the industry especially perceived differently from the boards of the mining companies.
– If something is good for the miners, it is also good for the industry – tells us Waclaw Czerkawski, Vice-President of the Association of Professional Miners in Poland. – And for the miners to preserve our most important pension entitlements. I will not hesitate to defend those rights – he added.
The Act regulates the pension is, according Czerkawski, whereas the impact on the industry that, among others, thanks to her in Poland are still willing to work in the mines. – Because at these wages, we have a large part to the miners in general no longer worked in the mining and long would seek an employment abroad. It is also due to the pension rights in some mines is five or six thousand applications for employment – explains the deputy head ZZG in Poland. This is inter alia because the trade unionists, the sector was a good situation, made sure that the school opened mine. – Likwidowaliśmy thus the generation gap, which was very dangerous, because it was beginning to lack of professionals in the mining industry – explains Czerkawski.
Similarly, the role of trade unions Kosela sees Patrick, a spokesman for August 80 – We are the union and we have to take care about the welfare of the crew. But the unions, despite what people say, consider themselves connoisseurs of mining, do not care only about themselves and about the miners – declares. – To say that only the miners are very demanding, is a misunderstanding – confirms Czerkawski. Moreover, in his opinion, the examples that workers in mines relinquished something so that their company operated, the multitude.
A protest organized even because of the privatization of JSW and make it to Warsaw IPO? – Yes, there were protests – admits union leader – but he ended the negotiations that resulted in the agreement. Besides all agreements, even those of the most violent protests, based on compromise. Przystawaliśmy on something that at the time there was no benefit for miners. We do not stand on the position that we will not give even a button – declares.
What else is done for the sake of trade sector? – Our representatives are many times when only perceived mismanagement somewhere, filed a notice to the prosecution. I’m talking eg. By signing contracts that were detrimental to the company, or adverse awarding of contracts. As a result, today everyone knows that mining is poorly managed and that works in the coal mafia – lists Kosela. The representative of the August 80 achievements also include the organization of opposition to the board JSW, which the company JSW Mining Training and recruit employees on trial and contained with a contract of employment, but for a limited period. – We call it junk employment in the mining industry. Because in the context of the standards that apply in the industry, they are junk agreement – the union’s spokesperson said.
– were also able to maintain a state of mine, even though they were, after all attempts to liquidate some of them , moreover, in a completely senseless. And often the mines, which were to be closed, then came out straight. Mine Boleslaw the Brave is today one of the better bets – Czerkawski added. Solidarity mining sentences about what the organization has done for the sector have not met – therefore no one was found who could with us to talk about it.
Kosela admits they were and failure. – Do not succeeded in this, that the salaries on the boards of mining companies were open, and most of all they were not prohibitive – he says. – That how much you earn on the board of the Coal Company, the company did not disclose, but hears about earnings in excess of up to 100 thousand. zł – he adds. Also complains … employment veins and giant mining companies their operating costs. He sees them, for example. Coal Company headquarters, where he nearly one thousand people. – It’s still such a small mine, so that unproductive. It’s Luggage for employees even in the PR department. The other hand, does not invest in the marketing department or coal trade – he says.
The failures of the organization also include the fact that people who have already acquired pension rights, continue to work in the mining industry. – Only Coal Company is the 1.8 thous., Including many directors mines. And the fact that these people are still employed, it is not good, because in the future someone might come to the conclusion that as long as they want to work, then you need further extend the retirement age – Kosela argues, adding that such workers should slow down leciwi place for the younger ones.
– We failed to force the government to work on further part of the strategy for the mining industry – lists in the first place Czerkawski failures. – Few people know that we’re already two years ago, we organized a demonstration is not just to win increases or new benefits, but that’s just to the government started this work. Because the current strategy is to apply only until the end of 2015. – He says.
Only full-time jobs JSW is up to 103 union activists
OPINION
40 million zł, carbon which companies pay on trade unions, a lot, especially if one takes into account that employed in them is only 90 thousand. people. However, I would not mind such expenditure if the unions to serve the industry. Meanwhile, activists cheat miners. Bring them into confusion by presenting them with false analyzes of the industry. We had up to 2011. Four years a great situation in the Polish mining industry was booming, both for thermal coal, as well as on the breeze. For this reason, the price of the raw material persisted throughout this period of more than two times higher than for many previous years. Therefore, all Polish mining companies performed well. The unions decided that now would be the effect was very high price of coal and return to a lower no. Such a message received from them miners. Under tremendous pressure to disburse the boards compounds so getting higher wages and agreed to the regulations, which do not take into account the fact that one day may come downturn. The money went to consumption, instead of investments that will enhance the efficiency of the mines. Not prepared to lean years, which usually come after the fat. Trade union activists have applied the same hand to ruin your business, which is best evidenced by the fall of the JSW. Once its shares cost over 130 zł, now a little over 20 zł. Miner who works on the wall, you may not understand everything, but the trade-unionist should be his guide. Meanwhile, most of the activists behaving ruthlessly, care only about their own high salaries.
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