Unions not happy with vague government plans for the chemical sector

The State Treasury is trying to convince trade unions to accept a program of restructuring companies from the industrial chemical sector, whose total debt amounts to zł. 2.5 billion. According to the government plan, a single concern would be created from combining all the assets of all state-owned fertilizer and chemical producers. The new venture would receive a capital injection from public funds. According to Zygmunt Barger, the trade union leader in the Tarnów nitrogen plant, both Nafta Polska and the Treasury failed to consult the assumptions of the plan with any of the companies involved. "The program is formulated in a very general manner. For instance, it mentions setting up technological parks without proposing sources of finance. Besides, the questions of who would inject capital into industrial chemicals producers, remains unanswered," explained Barger. Trade unions sent a letter to the Ministry, in which they list nine postulates, which are their precondition to accept the program. (Parkiet, p. 7) M.M.