The JSW supervisory board dismissed the president of the management board of the company Barbara Piontek and vice-presidents Tomasz Duda and Włodzimierz Hareźniak. Vice-president Jarosław Jędrysek resigned from his position – JSW informed.
W Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa the atmosphere has been very hot for several weeks now. The friction between the crew and the management mainly concerns the pay rises negotiated last year. Trade unions say that they are due, and the management board – not necessarily.
On Friday, JSW’s supervisory board met and made changes to the management board. “The supervisory board of JSW dismissed the president of the management board of the company, Barbara Piontek and vice-presidents Tomasz Duda and Włodzimierz Hareźniak. Vice-president Jarosław Jędrysek resigned from his position, JSW informed in a press release.
Until the appointment of a new head of JSW’s management board, the duties of the company’s president are to be performed – by the decision of the supervisory board – by a Supervisory Board member delegated to the management board, prof. Stanisław Prusek – until now the managing director of the Central Mining Institute in Katowice. He is to lead the JSW management board until the appointment of a new president, but no longer than until October 8 this year. Prusek will also act as JSW’s vice-president for technical and operational matters.
Another member of the board, Michał Rospędek, was also delegated to work in the management board, who will act as vice-presidents for trade and development.
Artur Wojtków, vice-president for labor and social policy, elected to this position by the company’s staff, remains on the JSW management board. Now he will also serve as a temporary vice president for economic affairs.
The reasons for changes in the company’s management board were not given in the statement on Friday. President Barbara Piontek managed the management board of JSW since the beginning of March this year. Previously, there were, among others vice-president of the Katowice Special Economic Zone.
A revolution at JSW. Major changes in the company’s management board
On Thursday, July 1, several hundred trade unions, mainly from mining Solidarity, visited the headquarters of Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa, the Katowice deputy office of the head of government and the office of PiS MEP Izabela Kloc in Mikołów. They accused politicians, inter alia, of filling the boards of coal companies with incompetent people.
Unionists – both from Solidarność and two other representative unions operating in this company – submitted a petition to Prime Minister Morawiecki. They demanded, inter alia, Barbara Piontek’s president and Tomasz Duda’s vice-president have resigned, as well as changes in the company’s supervisory board.
“We demand that JSW receive people who know mining, but are also prepared and competent in the field of management,” reads the petition. Trade unionists also pay attention to no social dialogue at JSWwhich the company’s board of directors has repeatedly denied in recent statements. During the picket on July 1, JSW President Barbara Piontek she went out to the protesters and maintained her willingness to talkby inviting trade unionists to them.
During the pickets, trade unions emphasized the influence of local PiS politicians on the appointment of positions in coal companies – in this context, JSW was mainly mentioned. The names of MEP Izabela Kloc and MPs Ewa Malik and Adam Gawęda, former deputy minister of energy, were mentioned in the union song prepared for the demonstration. The names of the deputies also appeared on banners.
The context of the demonstration was, inter alia, the situation in Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa, where trade unionists are in a wage dispute with managementdemanding increases greater than the salary increase announced by the management board from 1 July by 3.4 percent Earlier, trade unionists repeatedly expressed their disapproval of the actions of the JSW management board, headed by Barbara Piontek since March.
Two days before the trade union pickets, JSW published a position in which it was assured that the company “implements social dialogue and, with great regret and disappointment, adopts the attitude of three representative trade union organizations which, by announcing protests, aim to escalate social unrest among our employees.”
“Safety and guarantee of work and wages for our crew is a priority for the entire JSW Management Board. Therefore, there will be increases for all employees by 3.4 percent from July 2021. These are the maximum increases that JSW can afford today. We also extended the job assurance for the crew by 10 We are also in the course of talks with the social side of JSW. It cannot be said that we do not conduct dialogue “- said the president of Piontek, quoted in last week’s announcement.
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