Union accuses LOT management of incompetence

The union representing staff of LOT Polish Airlines has submitted a petition to the Supreme Board of Inspection (NIK), asking it to investigate the activities of the company's management. The union accuses the board of taking decisions that have led not to improving LOT's profitability, but to weakening its position on the international air carriers market. According to LOT spokesman Leszek Chorzewski, the objections are groundless. "The unions want to put pressure on the management of the company, as it prepares to make important decisions concerning changes to the size of the workforce and the structure of the company," he said. According to Rzeczpospolita, LOT plans to reduce the size of its 4,000-strong workforce by between 600 and 800 over the next couple of months. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B2) A.K.