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ws referendum. Workers protest action JSW
The fact that the mold will take action , the unions have to announce on Wednesday morning. During the evening a press conference said that they already have a preliminary plan of action, on which in the coming hours will be worked protest headquarters.
On Tuesday late afternoon in the mines ended a two-day referendum. Miners’ answers to the question: “Are you for taking action Protest-strike, to withdraw the board of JSW with resolutions and decisions which deprive employees of existing working conditions, wages and employee benefits?”.
spokesman for the Joint Representation of Trade Unions Peter Szereda told journalists that the referendum was attended by over 70 percent. JSW employees, approx. 90 per cent. present in the work during the vote. 18695 valid votes were cast. Protest-Strike Actions supported 18484 people opposing ago there were only 236 people – gave Szereda.
– Employees once again say negative things about the management of JSW (…) Unfortunately, the owner still has not made a decision, we ask – is all about a change in management that can not logically and reasonably lead production in JSW, and on top of breaking labor laws – Szereda said.
The unions say that the board poured oil on the fire, sending them requests for permission to release the organizers of the strike in Budryk from mid-January. According to the company’s board was an illegal strike, is susceptible to the risk of employees and, according to trade unionists – a solidarity protest actions accompanying miners Coal Company.
According to the trade union leaders to lay off the protest is a violation of government guarantees. After the decision of the board union announced August 80 ambulance strike in all coal mines. Trade unions from August 80 also threatened that if the release of the organizers of protest, calling for a general strike in all the mines. Trade union representatives indicate that participation in the planned actions will be voluntary.
Silesian-Dabrowska Solidarity announced in the evening, that of bringing about change in the board of JSW asked the Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz Międzyzwiązkowy-Strike and Protest Committee, who represented the miners Coal Company during a protest against plans to mine closure of the company. The representatives of the trade unions operating in JSW announced that they will not talk with the current management of the company, demanding his dismissal. Declare their readiness to talk to the board of directors of JSW and corporate representatives or government.
On the first day of the referendum JSW spokeswoman Katarzyna Jablonska-Bajer pointed out that staff responded to a question not directly related to the subject matter of the dispute, which in fact concerns the restoration of the so-called preventive meals. flapsów for employees in this area for government employees (this was the reason for initiating the formal labor dispute). The unions acknowledged that the issue of food opened the path to lawful strike. It really is, however, mainly to force the board to withdraw from the recently announced austerity plan.
Jablonska-Bajer recalled that the Board is not seeking savings announced layoffs and plant decommissioning. On the first day of the referendum appealed to the board of trade unionists to be reasonable and take into account the difficult situation in the mining industry. He estimated that the organization of a strike in order to restore the prophylactic meal will be “extreme irresponsibility.”
Last week, the board JSW austerity plan presented to the public, you need to – as the president said Jaroslaw Zagórowski – permanently improve the condition of the company. JSW uttered three collective agreements concluded with trade unions.
I want to, inter alia, wage freeze in 2015., reduce the coal and to abolish subsidies to sick leave or addiction Fourteenth salary payments from the profit of the company. Fourteen for 2014. Would be made in installments. Another proposal is the failure to raise wages in 2015. And the abandonment of subsidies to sick leave – in accordance with the Labour Code the employee is entitled to 80 per cent. wage workers JSW pays the remaining 20 percent.
The Board also wants to resign from transport to work, calculating the allowance for employee benefit fund for pensioners. He would like to pay for work on Saturdays and Sundays, also in accordance with the Labour Code, and not as it is now – with a more favorable to workers internal regulations. Also be reduced by the coal – from the current 8 tonnes for all, to 4 tonnes for underground workers and 2 tons for working on the surface.
According to the board, this means a decrease in annual income workers by approx. 10 percent. Unions do not agree with these calculations. In their view, the staff, depending on the job, these changes will lose 10 to 30 percent.
Dispute JSW between the president and the company operating in the trade has been going on for a long time. The unions accuse Jaroslaw Zagórowski mock dialogue and mismanagement, a trade – resistance to any change, beneficial for the company, which currently faces a crisis of the entire industry. During the previous survey in October referendum on the appeal board of the vast majority of the staff was “behind”. The Board considered the first referendum illegal.
JSW Group is the largest producer of coking coal 35 (hard) and significant coke producer in the European Union. Coal Company was created on 1 April 1993 as one of the seven formed the coal companies. It now consists of five coal mines: Borynia- Zofiówka-Hawks, Budryka, Boar-Szczyglowice, Krupiński and Pniówek and Material Logistics Department.
The most important of associated companies and subsidiaries of JSW include JSW COKE SA Wałbrzyskie Coke Plant “Victoria” SA Power Company “hawks” SA, Jastrzębskie Plant Renovation Sp. with o.o, Jastrzębska Railway Company Sp. z oo, a Polish Koks SA and JSW Training and Mining Sp. z oo
Group is one of the largest employers in Poland. In total, employs approx. 35 thousand. people, including 26 thousand. JSW.
After three quarters of last year, the group recorded a JSW zł 302 million loss. Full-year result will also be negative, whereas in 2011. Group had zł 2 billion profit.
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