Country’s nurses go out on strike

26th March 2011

The union says new temporary contracts could effectively kill off the nursing profession

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Nurses went on hunger strike and camped in parliament in protest of a new law they argue could spell disaster for their profession and Poland’s already beleaguered health service.

Upping the ante in a long-running national dispute over working conditions, which has seen nurses down tools across the country, a furious group of eight nurses set up camp in parliament with five of them refusing to eat.

Nursing unions have taken an exception to a new law passed by the lower house of parliament that allows local health authorities to hire nurses on temporary contracts. The government argues it would be unlawful to restrict authorities to full-time contracts, but the National Union of Nurse ...

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