11.2.2013
11/02/2013. The company EVRAZ VÍTKOVICE STEEL, a.s. and the unions ZO OS KOVO Vítkovice Ocelárna a Válcovny (the metalworker’s federation at the Vítkovice steel mill and rolling mill) have reached a consensus about the parameters of their collective agreement for 2013 – 2018. The agreement is effective as of February 1st, 2013. The payroll portion of the collective agreement has also been established, effective April 1st, 2013, securing a payroll increase of 3%. “I would like to thank the unions for their constructive approach. The negotiations were tough but pragmatic. I see the result as a reasonable compromise and I think that under the current difficult conditions, we’ve managed to reach a quality agreement for the next 5 years,” says Dmitrij Ščuka, Chairman of the Board of EVRAZ VÍTKOVICE STEEL, a.s. The Chairman of OS KOVO Zdeněk Kološ added: “The new collective agreement copies the preceding agreement in most clauses, while some were changed in compliance to the new Labor Code. We consider it important that according to the new agreement, nobody’s base pay will decline this year. The agreement negotiations were not easy, but I can say they were very constructive.”
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EVRAZ VÍTKOVICE STEEL specializes in the production of steel and its subsequent products: thick plates and cut shapes from thick plates. The goal of the company is to continue increasing the sales of products with a high added value, for example, the supply of plates for product pipelines. Thanks to the indispensable support of the Evraz Group and its strong position on the Russian and world markets, the company successfully entered the Russian product pipeline market. In the field of thick plate production, EVRAZ VÍTKOVICE STEEL is the main European manufacturer and the dominant producer in the Czech Republic.
EVRAZ is a leading vertically integrated steel, mining and vanadium business with operations in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, USA, Canada, Czech Republic, Italy and South Africa.Evraz Group S. A. In 2010, the group produced 16.3 million tons of raw steel and sold 15.5 million tons of rolled steel products. Mining assets cover 100% of the company’s own consumption of iron ore and coking steel. In 2010, the consolidated profits reached 13.394 billion USD and the consolidated adjusted EBITDA reached 2.350 billion USD.
