OREANDA-NEWS. June 9, 2008. The Presidium of the Central Trade Union Committee of Workers of the Metallurgical and Mining Industry of Ukraine summed up the Competition on the best collective agreement among enterprises of the metallurgical and mining complex of Ukraine.

After considering the documents represented by the competition committee, the Presidium of the Central Trade Union Committee of Workers of the Metallurgical and Mining Industry of Ukraine announced Zaporizhstal JSC the winner among enterprises producing ferrous and non-ferrous metal with an average number of workers 10 000 persons.

The main criteria for determining the winner of the competition was the fulfillment of the obligations of the collective agreement, providing positive showings of productive employment and competitiveness of the workers, level of labour salary and the degree of labour safety, social protection of the workers and the members of their families.

In our group the collective agreement of Zaporizhstal JSC competed with the collective agreements of such metallurgical giants as “Arcelor Mittal”, Dneprovskiy Works named after Dzerzhinskiy, Makeevskiy Works and others. But we won!

Thanks to the functioning system of constructive dialog of trade union bodies of all levels with the Works’ administration, our collective agreement is the most social oriented one in the branch of industry. This was noted by the organization committee.

Victory of Zaporizhstal JSC is a result of social partnership of the administration headed by V.A. Satskiy, Chairman of the Board, General Director, and the Trade Union Committee headed by L.A. Bezlepkin, its chairman.

As a result of the competition the Central Committee decided to award the Chairman of the Board, General Director of Zaporizhstal JSC, V.A. Satskiy, with the challenge honorable badge of the Central Trade Union Committee of Workers of the Metallurgical and Mining Industry of Ukraine “For the best collective agreement”.