KGHM directors press for major pay increase while employees left out in the cold

KGHM president Wiktor Błądek earned zł.730,000 last year. "This is little compared to earnings of heads of other large publicly listed companies, [especially considering] that KGHM made a profit of zł.678 million last year," says Dariusz Wyborski, KGHM spokesman. The Solidarity trade union in KGHM, which claims that management has asked for a raise of almost 100%, did not receive a response to its request for an employees bonus in view of KGHM's good financial performance. As a protest, the union will stage a picket in Głogów in front of the entrance to a traditional beer party organized on Saint Barbara's day December 4, which is the patron of miners. Błądek denies that his raise will not be as great as is being made out and declared that employees performance bonuses will be paid out in February. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 22) T.J.