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Work in the Silesia region came to a standstill as trade unions Solidarity, August 80 and OPZZ organised a regional two-hour ‘general strike’. Up to 100,000 transport workers, miners, steel mill and electricity plant workers walked off work, while hospital personnel protested by taking longer to register new patients. The workers are protesting against a change in the labour code toward flexibilisation, as well as against the government’s health and education policies.
English: http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/131142,Silesian-workers-in-general ...
http://www.thenews.pl/1/6/Artykul/131211,%E2%80%98General-strike-paralyzes-Silesia
For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.