Thousands of workers in more than 100 plants in the Western region of Lodz Thursday began a 48-hour Solidarity-led warning strike over wages.
Strike committee member Henryk Formicki said 28 plants, most of them representing the textile industry, struck at midnight. More plants joined the action with the beginning of the morning shift.The strikers are demanding wages in line with inflation, which the government hopes to hold to 32 percent this year.
They also say the government has failed to keep a promise dealing with the appointment by Feb. 22 of a government official to oversee the economic restructuring of the region.
Labor Minister Jacek Kuron, in a letter Monday to Janusz Tomaszewski, the Solidarity leader in the Lodz region, said no one has been appointed yet because the restructuring plans have not been completed.