Poland -Nationwide coal miners’ strike ends in pay deal -February 23, 2015

Mar 8, 2015 - Trade unions and coal producer JSW have signed a deal on cost saving and wages. After an extended strike, JSW has reached an agreement with trade unions, which averts dreaded job losses but includes a pay freeze, a six day working week and the 2014 bonus to be paid in two installments.

Trade unions and coal producer JSW have signed a deal on cost saving and wages. The dispute in the mining industry (see our January Newsletter) entered a new phase with a nationwide strike in the beginning of February. Workers from the largest coal mining nation in Europe went on strike in support of employees of JSW (Jastrzebska Spolka Weglowa SA), the largest metallurgical coal producer in the EU. Talks between the trade unions and JSW failed to reach agreement about company plans to scrap social benefits and the dismissal of union leaders. JSW recently dismissed ten workers from the Budryk mine who organised a protest in January 2015, which the company said was illegal and had endangered workers at the mine. After an extended strike, JSW has reached an agreement with trade unions, which averts dreaded job losses but includes a pay freeze, a six day working week and the 2014 bonus to be paid in two installments.

English: http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews ...  http://www.miningaustralia.com.au/news/nationwide-coal-strike-to-begin-in-poland


For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.

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