The coming week (early September 2007)
Toruń nurses will picket the Sejm (national parliament in Warsaw) while the members of Parliament are working on a bill guaranteeing them a rise, stating, “We’re still a long way from lifting the strike”.
The bill about raising the salaries of health workers is a result of the protests carried out by nurses from around Poland in June. They formed what was called a “white town” around the Prime Minister’s Office in Warsaw for four weeks, made of a few dozen tents. Among them were nurses from Toruń hospitals.
The government initially rejected the raise, but in the end gave in and next week a bill which guarantees higher salaries for nurses, doctors and other medical workers will go through its first reading in t…