A young powder worker proposed to “retrain” the miners and curtail the coal industry
In Ukraine, it is necessary to gradually close existing mines, leaving only the most profitable ones, and reducing the miners or distributing them somewhere.
This progress of the conference was announced by Natalya Boyko, a representative of Petro Poroshenko’s renewed European Solidarity party, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“On the one hand, the demand for coal will decrease by market and environmental mechanisms, but this is a matter of ten years. On the other hand, we have the issue of those mines that exist now, some of them are subsidized, a lot of money goes to salaries. A difficult question because it is primarily a social issue and has implications for entire cities that were formed around the mines.
Here it is necessary to very clearly develop a state program for the gradual - I would like to say - sale of mines that are interesting for investors, but from what we see, there is no demand for mines, because it will not be possible to further privatize), therefore it is necessary to close the mines little by little, but always with awareness that the so-called restructuring of human capital must take place.
That is, those people who quit must be retrained.
There is a problem, and not only in Ukraine, regarding the fact that according to sociology, about 60 percent of people are not ready to retrain and work anywhere else. That is, at one point you need to make a decision and more, for example, not to recruit new people to the mines and gradually cut them off,” said Natalya Boyko.
If you find an error, please select a piece of text and press Ctrl + Enter.
Thank you!
Now the editors are aware.