The trade unionists have reached an agreement with the management of DB Cargo Polska. Employees will have higher wages starting from May

photo: DB Cargo Polska/ Facebook/The trade unionists have reached an agreement with the management of DB Cargo Polska. Employees will have higher wages starting from May

In March, negotiations took place between trade unionists and the management of the railway carrier DB Cargo Polska on wage increases. According to the signed agreement, the basic wages of the company's employees will increase by PLN 500 gross on average. The wage agreement negotiated by the unions will come into force on 1 May 2022.

"Negotiations with the employer were very difficult, we did not want to prolong them further. We demanded an increase of PLN 600, we negotiated PLN 500, which at the moment, in the context of the outbreak of war in Ukraine, should be considered a success," says Leszek Piskała, head of Solidarność trade unionists at DB Cargo Polska.

PLN 500 gross is the average wage increase, which is the result of dividing the number of funds allocated for wage increases by the total number of employees in our company. In practice, salary increases will be quite varied. "The final distribution of the money will be decided by department heads. We have a guaranteed minimum amount of pay increase in our contract. It is an amount of PLN 200, which means that no one will be left with nothing," adds the "S" foreman at DB Cargo Polska.

Leszek Piskała also reminds us that in April, DB Cargo Polska employees will receive an extra PLN 1,000 on their accounts. It is the second part of the bonus negotiated by the union last year. The first one, also amounting to PLN 1,000 gross, was paid in December 2021.