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Read MorePolish Postal Service Brought To Standstill By Strike
Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, has ground to a standstill after postal workers began strike action yesterday.The Solidarity Union has been demanding a wage rise of 160 euros but management say 90 euros is the best they can offer without destabilising the postal service and that the union-proposed rise was out of the question.
20,000 distribution workers are thought to be involved in the strike.
Read MorePolish Post to go on strike
Polish Post (Poczta Polska) has announced that it is to go on strike with effect from tomorrow.
Executives from Polish Post have failed to come to agreement with trade unions over working conditions at the company. As a result the company has announced that as of tomorrow, the national postal service is to go strike.
Bogumil Nowicki from the Polish Post branch of the “Solidarnosc” trade union has stated that 66,000 postal employees voted in favour of the strike.
Employees of the Polish Post are fighting for higher wages: 800 PLN gross (ca.USD 380) per month. In the final stages of the talks the union agreed to a 533 PLN gross pay rise.
The management board of Polish Post was ready to accept a 305 PLN gross rise, but the unions were not satisfied.
Bogumil Nowicki from “Solidarnosc” added that the national postal service is treated badly by politicians, as every government has tried to initiate various structural changes to the company.
The union representative went onto say that sometimes governments try and make the company more of a commercial enterprise, whereas others try to keep more in line with the company’s mission.
Union members working for Polish Post agree that these points cancel each other out and simply bring the company into paralysis.
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