Nowa Huta. Picket in front of the gate of the plant metallurgists can lose … – NaszeMiasto.pl

More than a thousand people demonstrated on Thursday in front of the main gate of the plant in Nowa Huta. The local steel workers may lose their jobs.

“Not for the liquidation of some raw steel mills”, “No to the destruction of jobs” – the content of banners fluttered above the crowd steelworkers demonstrators protesting in Krakow conglomerate. At the demonstration came from many places from Poland and Silesia.

The protest prejudged last Monday, when the management of ArcelorMittal Poland, Cracow ironworks owner, decided to suspend the preparations for the repair of the blast furnace. And if it is not upgraded to the middle of next year, it will be blank. For steelworks mean disaster. The work will lose approx. 1.5 thousand. employees steelworks, coking plants and power plant, as well as seven thousand. people from external companies.

The owner of Krakow steelworks no secret that the suspension of plans to overhaul blast furnace is a result of the lack of effects of talks with the government to abolish excise duty on electricity and gas prices release. They have done so other governments of the European Union, and today their steel is much more competitive than Poland. – Do not insist on any privileges. We just want to work on the basis of these samy rules that apply to other EU countries, mainly in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany – so Sylwia Winiarek, spokeswoman for ArcelorMittal Poland, explained the position of the company.

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