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Krzysztof ŻmudaSecretary of the Shipbuilding Industry National Section of Independent Self-governing Trade Union Solidarność

National Section of Shipbuilding Industry ofIndependent Self-governing Trade Union

SOCIAL ASPECTS OF

SHIP REPAIR SECTOR

IN POLAND


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Summary of ship repair yards in Poland:

Gdańsk Ship Repair Yard „Remontowa” SA

��Ownership form – private (since 2001)��Management and employees company ��Employment – 2300��Trade unions membership – 85%



Summary of ship repair yards in Poland

Shiprepair Yard Gryfia S.A.

��Ownership form – State Treasury company��Employment – 575��Trade unions membership – 83%

Morska Shiprepair Yard (Świnoujście)




Summary of ship repair yards in Poland

Shiprepair Yard Nauta S.A.


Naval Shipyard Gdynia in bankruptcy




Summary of ship repair yards in Poland:

Total ship repair yard sector in Poland

��Direct employment – 4200��Trade unions membership

(total) – 80%

��Subcontracting – 3000��Trade unions membership

(total) – 5%



Employment aspects of ship repair sector in Poland

Labour costs = above 60% of total ship repair costs!!!

West Europe��Change of shipyard management model – outsourcing and development of subcontracting

companies market with accepted standards of employment forms, social conditions, skills, health & safety and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Poland��Many companies save money through

employment of self-employed „companies” and shifting labour costs to employee (often examples of self-employed forms out of Labour Code and „rubbish” agreements, social dumping)




��Collective labour agreements exist in the shipyards

��Lack od sectoral collective labour agreements

��Tri- partitie branch units –often lack of dialogue

��Limitation of professional education and shortages of

education policy in the area of achieving shipbuilding working qualifications

��Small amount of reskilled employees, shifting of costs of courses and trainings to the shipyards




Large difference of standards and working conditions between domestic shipyards

Case – Gdańsk Ship Repair Yard Remontowa S.A.:

��Collective labour agreements applied��Constant social dialogue��Labour contract employment��High level of social and health and safety standards��Improvement of skills through organizing of courses

and trainings

Negative aspects of subcontracting:

��Employment out of Labour Code requirements��Low social and Health & Safety standards��Lack of collective labour agreements and working

regulations��Lack of possibility of consociate of employees��Lack of courses and trainings



Internal threats – employment aspects (in Poland)

��Increase of generation gap in shipbuilding professions due to lack of stability and difficult working conditions on repairing ships; therefore increase of reluctance of young people to attain working qualifications

��Lack of government actions in order to effective ownerships’ transformations in ship repairing sector

��Many subcontracting companies do not keep required standards - increase of risks related to health & safety



External threats – indirect impact on employment

��New IMO and EU regulations regarding SO2 emission by ships and enforcement new rules starting from 01.01.2015 – only on ECA’s waters (Baltic, North Sea and La Manche channel):

●●●● did not bring modernizations of ships in order to adapt fleet to above mentioned rules and therefore did not generate more orders for the shipyards

●●●● may cause breach of competitive balance throughfavoritism of the shipyards located inthe Mediterranean Sea

��Lack of cooperation between many shipowners and shipyards (i.e. through audits) in order to assure minimal social and H&S standards (pressure on service costs decrease)



Other internal threats regarding employees

��Difficulties in obtaining state aid support approved by EC due to lack of financial resources in Polish government budget for that purpose

��Movement of employees of ship repair sector from Poland to other countries of the European Union due to higher wages



Sector opportunities

��Ownership transformations of ship repair yards in Poland which will stabilize shiprepairing labour market

��Implementation of transition periods in Europe for use of fuel with reduced content of SO2 in ECA’s (chance for shipowners but also for shipyards)

��Implementation of European working standard for all companies operating in the Polish ship repair and conversion market

�� Implementation of regulations encouraging European shipowners to increase level of repairs of their fleet in the European shipyards


Krzysztof ŻmudaSecretary of the Shipbuilding Industry National Section of Independent Self-governing Trade Union Solidarność

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