Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz meeting with the miners – Virtual Poland

Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz meeting with the miners – Virtual Poland

Talks on the government’s recovery plan for the Coal Company involving Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz began on Monday after hours. 14 in Katowice.

Founded including elimination of four mines government restructuring plan biggest mining companies in the European Union aroused great excitement in Silesia. For several days, the miners are underground lead protests. On Monday extended protest. Underground miners protest took the next four mines KW. In Katowice unionists blocked the railway tracks and women to be decommissioned plants moved to Warsaw with a petition to President Bronislaw Komorowski.

On Saturday and Sunday in Katowice, negotiations with representatives of the mining union government delegation. Twice they were picked by trade unionists who finally declared that they would return to the talks, but on the condition that he would take part in them, Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz, and that will cover the entire industry, not just KW.

According to the board KW further mining at four mines – Bobrek Centre in Bytom, Brzeszcze in Malopolska village of the same name, Room in Ruda Slaska and Sośnica-Makoszowy in Gliwice and Zabrze – is economically unjustified. In 2014 years, these plants have produced a total of 821 million zł losses.

According to the adopted on Wednesday by the government’s plan for KW possibilities of financing the company ran out and without restructuring it will fall within a month. Among the solutions identified four mines KW liquidation, transfer of 6 thousand. people to other plants and cover for redundant – at the expense of approx. 2.3 billion zł.

The government ensures that in the event of a recovery plan to downsize touches KW up to approx. 3 thousand. people who will be covered by the shell programs. Otherwise, the company threatens bankruptcy as a result of which the work will lose nearly 50 thousand. people – warns the Ministry of Economy.

The recovery plan for KW for the sale of a new established company by Węglokoks SPV 9 of 14 mines Company. Of the remaining one has to buy Węglokoks (Piekary), and another four are to be terminated by the Company Restructuring of Mines.