Ukrzaliznytsia Decided 80% of Builders Requirements
OREANDA-NEWS. January 22, 2013. The State Administration of Railway Transport of Ukraine "Ukrzaliznytsia" (UZ) held successful negotiations with the largest Railway Union, which unites 99% of workers in the sector. This was announced by Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Volodymyr Kozak at briefing.
"I thank you for the correct approach, for the approach within the law - Volodymyr Kozak appealed to the Union of railmen and transport builders of Ukraine, headed by Vadym Tkachov. - We work together to the rights of railmen will be fully respected and to solve the problem in the manner prescribed by law. We conducted negotiations that lasted more than one day. And 80% of the questions put by the Union have been resolved. The remaining issues that are within the competence of the railway administration, ministry, will be resolved soon. Those issues, which depend on the consideration of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, will be raised at the Government and I'm sure the issues will also be addressed".
In particular, this year's growth of wages in the railway industry will be 15.8%.
"We are working to preserve social security, reduce costs and ensure traffic volumes. Questions of a social nature have always been in the priority of the railway industry, so it will be in the process of reform", said the first deputy director general of Ukrzaliznytsia Sergiy Bolobolin.
The Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine stressed that the talking of privatization of Ukrzaliznytsia is misinformation and a way to politicize the situation surrounding this issue.
"Today, many political forces begin to impose public opinion on privatization of Ukrzaliznytsia, which allegedly lead to layoffs. This will never happen. Reforms passed in all the countries of Europe and CIS, except Ukraine. And where there was reform, wages of railmen increased by 2.5 times or more", Volodymyr Kozak said.
As the minister said, the reform will be transparent to the unions and society in general. All draft documents and the law are open to the public and trade union organizations.
Leader of the Union of railmen and transport builders of Ukraine Vadym Tkachov said the union led "tough negotiations" with the Ukrzaliznytsia in October of last year and criticized the way of solution of social and labor issues not through dialogue and negotiation but picketing authorities.
"It's very easy to collect fifteen hundred men near a building and to yell, make a noise to draw attention to themselves, as small trade unions do with the participation of political forces. But such actions will not decide problems, which concern labor group of railmen. Such actions are political in nature and complicate our negotiations distract from the real work. Our organization categorically rejects cooperation with any political parties", Vadym Tkachov said.
According to Vadym Tkachov, this year in the Ukrzaliznytsia will be created special Department to address social issues of railmen. Also UZ agreed that in all directions will be introduced positions of lawyers who will deal exclusively with the observance of labor legislation.
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