Mining unions on Monday will confer ws. Project wage agreement for more than 30 thousand. employees Coal Company. Although at stake are their jobs, the unions are fighting for bonuses. The government gave everything he could, and still can not come to an agreement with the trade – give journalists portal WysokieNapiecie.pl.
Do you prefer to have a job or higher pay to keep the risk of business failure? Before the choice facing the mining unions, which on Monday meet to discuss the draft wage agreement negotiated with the board of the Coal Company and representing the government minister of energy Krzysztof Tchórzewski and Deputy Minister Grzegorz Tobiszowskim.
Three holiness : Barbórka, bonus, allowance
For now, the unions choose the second option. Do not agree to any wage cuts, although the question is not about salaries – which remain unchanged – but only for additives in the form of a thirteenth salary (ie. Miners), fourteenth salary (ie. The payment of profit, although paid even if the profit is not) and the de facto fifteenth salary (monetary equivalent for the coal). These three benefits are a total of approx. 20-25 percent. additions to the salary of the miners, not the only, but the biggest.
The benefits were to be indeed only temporarily limited. The coal had to be suspended in the years 2017-2018. And “St. Barbara” would be reduced by half only in the years 2016-2018 and only in those mines, which generate the largest losses. Also, only time (years 2017-2018) reduced the payment was to be “14-nuts” – the most in these mines, which generate the largest losses.
Money to the end of the month
Such a renunciation government offered the miners on April 13. They would help newly created Polish Mining Group to stand on his feet after taking over the staff, assets and huge debts Coal Company. The unions, however, did not want to hear about such a solution. As explained, temporary cuts in the wage bill (which is nearly 60 percent. Company costs) is only a prelude to its limit permanently. Meanwhile, in their opinion, the board KW should look for savings in other places – including improving how money is spent and asset management.
The problem is that improved management of Kompania – although actually can give tangible results – a process spread over the years. In turn, the money Coal Company ends this month. Whereas the transfer of the miners to the Polish Mining Group is dependent on creditors and new shareholders of the latter. It is almost exclusively state-owned company (PGE, Energa, Węglokoks, PKO BP, Alior and BGK), among them there are, however, two private banks – BZ WBK and BGZ BNP Paribas.
All to put the money would be ensure that the Polish Mining Group will survive even the next few years. State’s government could see that it will be, but the private creditors want to see the effect – a temporary reduction of wage costs that would result. In addition, state-owned companies can not take out private creditors, because then the plan to rob the Coal Company will almost certainly not have approved the European Commission – is another entity that would like to see the tangible effects of restructuring Polish mining industry.
Next concessions
Under pressure from the union government withdrew from previous proposals and made new – “the minimum of the minimum” – rated as the energy minister Krzysztof Tchórzewski. According to the draft agreement of last Saturday suspended for the period 2016-2017 would be the only payment, “14-fives.” This would give the approx. 200 million zł savings. For comparison, during the first six months of 2015 years The company generated over 750 mln zł losses (results for the full year, the company has not yet published). Meanwhile, the company requires additional hundreds of million of investment in order to continue to mine.
About the possible acceptance of this agreement will on Monday discuss mining compounds. It is already clear, however, that there will be among them another objection. – Reduction of employee earnings by 8 percent. by depriving it of the right to the so-called. 14-fives treated as a prelude to further restrictions wage – rated in a statement Trade Union “Executive”. Trade unionists from the “Human Resources” they added, that the business of the Polish Group Mining is their opinion unrealistic because after reducing employment by 5 thousand. employees mines will not be able to bring out of the planned 28 million tons of coal.
The posts Social
The attitude of the trade unions is difficult to explain. Defending additives salaries are forcing the company to reduce employment (which also does not have consent, so there will be hires). As a result of successive concessions agreements can not accept the addition creditors, and consequently the bailout plan can be blocked by the European Commission.
The Minister of Energy Krzysztof Tchórzewski assessed that ongoing talks with unions is really “fight for the preservation of 100 thousand . jobs, “because each of approx. 34 thousand. Company employees accrue two posts in companies cooperating with it (KW owes them nearly 3.5 billion zł).
In the worst case, no agreement will mean bankruptcy of the company. If the creditors accept a bankruptcy systemic, cutting wages and jobs, and so happens, but the costs for miners may be much higher.
proposed by the government formula – reduce wages primarily in the mines generating the greatest losses – makes sense from an economic point of view. As a result, where the mines really should be eliminated, utrzymywalibyśmy so. social posts. Mines would generate less waste, partly covered by lower wages but still would provide employment.
This would also avoid the high social costs of well-known among from Walbrzych and Bytom, where in place of abandoned coal mines was not created enough new jobs and new posts were mostly much worse paid than even the most truncated mining salaries. Saturday government’s proposal and the board of the Coal Company, unfortunately, this mechanism does not.
Mining unions are playing with the government in a dangerous game, at stake are not the salaries of the miners, but their jobs. No consent to an agreement, or union “check” can have huge consequences for many thousands of workers and their families.
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