JSW workers vote against management

In a “sounding out” referendum, the employees of coking coal producer Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa (JSW) voted against the company’s management, the Polish Press Agency reports. The company’s authorities declared the vote illegal. The employees claim that the management board no longer has trust and should be dismissed.  Turnout was 74.11 percent and 98.33 percent of the votes were against the board. “The referendum shows once again that the negative view of the JSW management board is not the result of a lack of goodwill from the part of union activists,” unions’ spokesperson Piotr Szereda told PAP, “but from the assessment of the economic situation and the activity, the management style and the way that labor law is implemented.”