Sit-in strike still strong in Tele-Fonika Kable, legal action could be taken soon

Cable producer Tele-Fonika Kable (TFK) estimated that losses resulting from the two-month sit-in strike by employees in its Ozarow factory, which is to be shut down, has already reached zl. 16 million. The company management recently claimed that the redundancies and costs resulting from the strike will not affect its financial results, while company deputy president Jan Kurbiel admitted that TFK would be financially hit by the industrial action. TFK is not going to publish its revenue forecasts for this year. "In comparison to last year, the market for cables has greatly shrunk, so it is hard to predict our financial results," added Jerzy Turczynski. The management also sent potential cases to the prosecutor. The first one is against the Mazowsze (Warsaw) region Solidarity trade union deputy leader Arkadiusz Sliwinski, who is the mastermind behind the occupation. The second is against the chief of police in Ozarow who failed to act when the director of the plant was beaten by the employees yesterday. The company hopes to regain some of the losses if the prosecutor agrees to send the case to court. Meanwhile the employees are planning to march to Warsaw today to protest against the plant's closure (Puls Biznesu, p. 10) M.M.