Fading hope to advert PKP general strike

Due to demands of the Strike Committee of the Employees of Polish State Railways (KPSK), the schedule meeting of the employees-employer-government Tripartite Committee has been moved forward to today. However, the workers are not willing to negotiate during the meeting, something which Polish State Railways (PKP) managers and the government had hoped for. "Our representatives will be there, but they will not discuss the issue of the strike," said the Strike Committee leader Stanisław Kogut. This means that the industry-wide strike will begin on Wednesday night and no trains will run until further notice. This will be the first such event in the history of the rail network and it is hard to estimate the losses that will result from this. "I do not understand why the unions are not willing to negotiate, particularly bearing in mind that some of them are members of supervisory boards in companies belonging to PKP. Moreover, the condition of only holding talks with three named people outside PKP and the government should be treated as blackmail," said PKP supervisory board member Adam Wielądek. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 4) M.M.