After discussions with the Labor Unions we have decided to implement a shorter 4-day working week starting January first. Our employees will get the compensation of 60 percent of their average income for one day off work.
The Fenestra non-government organization and the Slovak and Czech Women's Fund have jointly acknowledged individual and group initiatives aimed at stopping violence against women and reducing tolerance in society towards such violence.
The Wishing Tree project, through which the Košice steelmakers fulfill the Christmas wishes of many children, has again brought happiness in recent days to the children in families of U. S. Steel Košice employees ...
Former steelmakers who are members of the Autumn of Life civic association never let an opportunity to look “inside the factory gates” again pass them by, and this year was no exception.
Last year the Children's Railway in Košice celebrated an important jubilee, which was its 60th anniversary. On this occasion, its enthusiasts organised more than sixty accompanying events designed for children and adults.
Finding a peaceful island in the hectic pre-Christmas days is not easy, but still some places where your mind gets refreshed can nevertheless be found. Such a place has for years been the ceremonial hall ...
Did you soak up the Christmas atmosphere on the Main Street? And did you also visit our charity hut? In addition to the complete team of the Department of Director External Relations U.S. Steel Košice, ...
We say: so many counties, so many customs. This applies to Christmas as well. Even though many people worldwide celebrate this most beautiful holiday that comes from Christian traditions ...
I would also like to mention how volatile and dynamic the situation has become.
If we want to sell products and earn money, we have to have acceptable prices per ton of steel.
Last Thursday, December 3, 2015, Mr. Miroslav Kiraľvarga, U. S. Steel Košice Vice President External Affairs, Administration and Business Development, participated in the session of the Board of Directors ...
The KOVO Labor Union Council supports the activities of IndustriAll at the European level directed towards helping and supporting the steel industry in Europe. In addition, ...
Recently we commemorated twenty years since the largest tragedy in the history of the Košice steelworks, when 11 people died and dozens of other were poisoned due to a fblast-furnace gas pipeline explosion and subsequent carbon monoxide (CO) escape.
In the current school year, more than four hundred students of secondary vocational schools in Slovakia are preparing for the first time for their future occupation according to the actual needs and requirements of employers.
Do you know the history of the Metallurgical Faculty and do you know how long its cooperation with the Košice steelworks has lasted? What are the foundations it has been built on and what is its orientation at present?
The Košice Fairy-tale Christmas has already started. On Friday, 4 December, City Major Mr. Richard Rašiand U. S. Steel Košice Vice President External Affairs, Management and Business Development Mr. Miroslav Kiraľvarga, together with St. Nicholas, his suite and Firefly opened the celebrations from the stage near the Immaculata memorial.
Large numbers in English and Slovak. Up until fairly recently British English and Slovak usages were in agreement that a million was ten to the power of six (106), a milliard was ten to the power of nine (109), and a billion was ten to the power of twelve (1012).
Fifty years will have passed at the end of this week since the beginning of coke production in Slovakia, for which the Košice steelmakers were responsible. Our cokery staff produced the first coke on December 12, 1965 ...
On Friday, November 27 the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Košice was the venue for the celebration of some impressive working anniversaries - 30, 35, 40 and in some cases 45 years - of long-serving employees in the Transport, Power Engineering, Mechanics and Maintenance Divisions and the Department of General Manager Reliability of Equipment.
Participants in the latest session of industriAll's Committee for Basic Metals, which took place on November 17 and 18 of this year in Taranto, Italy, all agreed at the close of discussions that it will be necessary in the very near future ...
According to independent analysis by the ECOFYS consultancy company, the costs deriving from the proposed changes in the fourth phase of the emissions trading system in the European Union (EU ETS)
Did you know that in the past most of Slovakia's narrow-gauge railways used to be in the eastern part of this country? Many of them have been at least partially preserved, while others no longer exist, but mentions of them, also thanks to the tireless efforts of their admirers and enthusiasts, “are still alive.”
Last Friday, life at the Hurbanova Street Foster Home in Košice was busy. St. Nicholas visited the children, and even agreed to act as a member of the jury in a talent contest.
"The black scenario" came true at Fairfield Works, which is a part of portfolio of the United States Steel Corporation. Last week, the Corporation´s Management decided to shut the Blast Furnace down.
Almost everything is already prepared for it so that the Main Street in our city can be transformed, also in this year, into a Christmas fairy-tale country full of the smells, tastes, lights and good humor.