Strike brings a halt to aluminum production at AKI mill

According to the trade unions, most of the employees joined the strike, while official sources claimed the plant is continuing basic production. "We do not care about the wage increases, but about ending repressions against the workers and annulling illegal renunciation of employment contracts. State Labor Inspection (PIP) is handling the issue already," said Zdzisław Nowakowski, head of one of the trade unions who was fired along with 32 other trade unionists. He went to say that 20 other non-unionist workers were also sacked. "According to our assessment there was a flagrant violation of labor rights," said local PIP bureau spokesman Jerzy Jankowski. According to the employees, reductions were carried out due to a warning strike of July, which was in turn due to a failure to implement the stipulations of agreement between the workers and the management board of June. AKI did not say what the management board planned to do next. (Parkiet, p. 4; Rzeczpospolita, p. B3; Puls Biznesu, p. 7) M.M.