Poles carried out one day strike action in UK

More than 1,000 Polish workers are set to gather outside parliament instead of going to work in a protest against scapegoating Polish migrants. According to the Guardian, the Polish community in the UK was expected take action on Thursday to demonstrate just how much the UK relies on them, in two contrasting ways: some Polish workers plan to down tools in a day long strike and head to a demonstration at Westminster, while others intend to donate their blood to the NHS. “A few weeks ago, readers of the Polish language newspaper Polish Express began discussing what would happen if 10,000s of Poles working in the UK did not go to work for the day,” George Byczynski of the British Poles Initiative told the newspaper. “There was a discussion that it would prove how hard Polish people work and the benefits immigrants in general brought to the country. It wasn’t treated as a serious idea, but then it began to get discussed online and began to grow.” Byczynski and his friends assumed that it was risky thing to support and decided to do a positive act by asking Poles to donate blood.   “Now blood donor center are fully booked up because of this initiative,” he said.