Members of PiS Kacper Płażyński and Michał Kowalski, after the parliamentary audit, which they carried out on Monday in the Gdynia branch of PKP Cargo, assessed that the activities around the company could be a consequence of a pursuit and "want to take over the marketplace by abroad capital".
Płażyński stressed that the audit was the consequence of a gathering with a associate of the National Railway Section of the NSZZ “Solidarity” a fewer days ago and the information that the company provided in July about the intention to carry out group redundancies, to cover up to 30 percent of the crew. Kowalski added that in the Gdynia branch of PKP Cargo the work is to lose 360 people, and in the full company as many as 4,000 people.
– PKP Cargo has been having a hard time lately, but we have doubts that this is not the consequence of a certain attack on this company and the desire to take over the marketplace by abroad capital, by companies that only on the Polish marketplace begin to function said at a conference organized after the control of Plażyński.
As he said, the president of PKP Cargo (Marcin Wojewódka) began his office by giving interviews in which he claimed that the company was in problem and that it was close liquidation. – Find me a manager who takes over the company, he starts scaring possible clients of this company, that it's better not to do business with us, due to the fact that we're about to halt existing. said the MP. He added that PKP Cargo is the second largest transport company in Europe. – Every year 5 billion PLN is the income of this company. Last year her profit was over PLN 80 million – he added.
Members recalled that the current board of PKP Cargo had submitted a request for a sanction to the National registry of Debt. – The company, which has large profits, a unchangeable situation, has an property worth PLN 8 billion, abruptly is to be repaired by the court, by a temporary admin who will decide which assets of this company to sale and which ones not? “Plażyński asked and pointed out that according to him, “the sale of the property always pales with the value of the property.” – This is the way it is in the repo market, that these prices are simply dumped – he said.
According to Kowalski, a sanitation motion carries a large danger. – Sanction, in another words, the restructuring of the establishment, will let workers to be released from trade unions, pregnant women or even people who are pre-retirement, presently protected by law He explained.
Płażyński added that during the parliamentary audit he asked whether the supervisory board of the company received this request. According to Plażyński, the advisor to the Management Board of the Cargo Railway Station Janusz Janiszewski was to answer that "the advice received no paper in this case".
Members informed that Ukraine Railways Cargo Poland began operating in Poland in June. It is the daughter of the Ukrainian State Railway, as the MPs said. – It is simply a bare company, which has no real estate, its value is PLN 5 thousand said Plażyński. Mr Kowalski stated that it is simply a company that "does not have specified bureaucracy and its operation is much cheaper than the operation of Polish transport plants". – We are afraid that the transport marketplace will decrease for PKP Cargo – he said.
According to Mr Płażyński, the Ukrainian company and PKP Cargo "connect names". – Today on the Ukrainian Railways Cargo Poland supervisory board is Mr Jakub Karnowski, who in the erstwhile government of Donald Tusk was president of PKP SA and prepared privatization of PKP Cargo – informed. He added that the current president of PKP Cargo “at the time of privatization for the erstwhile Tusk governments” was the owner of “Voivodka & Partners” which was an advisory company in the process of privatization of PKP Cargo.
– Shocking coincidence that then you, who privatized, are in Ukrainian state railways, and you, who advised on this privatisation, are president of PKP Cargo today. In the background, a Ukrainian co-founder – a daughter, whose president is you, who had previously worked in the Ministry of the Interior of Ukraine, and who was a advanced authoritative of the Ukrainian police “Plażyński continued.
Members announced that after the parliamentary audit they would address questions to infrastructure minister Dariusz Klimczak (PSL).
Until the release of the PAP, she did not receive the position of PKP Cargo on the PiS Conference. Upon receipt of her position, the Agency shall announce the publication of the company's replies.
In early July, the board of PKP Cargo informed of the intention to carry out group redundancies to cover up to 30 percent of the crew. Earlier, at the end of May, the management of the company decided to launch a program to mention up to 30 percent of employees to the alleged occupation instatement. He besides proposed to terminate the collective collective agreement and common obligations agreement of the parties to the agreement. In June, he adopted a resolution on the unilateral dissolution, at the end of the 24-month announcement period, of the Plant Collective Labour Agreement.
On Tuesday, another circular of talks was announced between the Board of Railways Cargo and trade union representatives.
PKP Cargo is the largest rail freight carrier in Poland. As a Group, it offers logistics services, combining rail, automotive and maritime transport. It provides independent freight services in Poland and: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Hungary, Lithuania and Slovenia. The largest single shareholder of PKP Cargo is PKP SA, which has 33.01 percent of shares.
Source: PAP (Piotr Mirowicz)
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