39% Poles think unions do good job

As much as 39 percent of Poles assess positively the efforts of trade unions, while 36 percent think adversely, according to a survey by CBOS. More than half of the respondents supported the miners' protest in January. What is surprising, majority of those who support unions, define themselves as right-wingers and would vote for the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, while union opponents describe themselves as left-wingers. The biggest share of those who think that labor union activity is detrimental to the economy vote for the ruling Civic Platform (PO). The survey was conducted on a sample of 1,052 randomly selected Poles.