Negotiations with striking health workers collapse

He maintained during yesterday's meeting that an increase in wages this year is out of the question, a statement which drove nurses and doctors out of the meeting before the end of negotiations. "We were expecting concrete proposals. I know what concrete proposals are and what a social dialogue is. We had none of that. Our white city is staying," said the head of the nurses' union, Dorota Gardias. The head of the doctors' union, Krzysztof Bukiel, announced that the strike will not be seen as a success until the government agrees to their demands. He went on to add that if no compromise is met the hospitals will run out of doctors by October. (Dziennik, p. 6; Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 4; Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) A.K.