Rail passengers on strike

27th August 2011

Passengers are organising the strike via Facebook

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Disgruntled train passengers have decided to take action against the recent rail strikes by staging their own.

The event, currently being organised on social networking site Facebook, is set to take place on September 7 and is in retaliation to last week’s employees at PKP Przewozy Regionalne downing their tools over problems regarding payment and working conditions.

“Railway workers on strike? Well we also have reasons to boycott and strike,” said one of the organisers.

Amongst some of the demands stated were ‘clean toilets’, 'punctuality’, 'better conditions for cyclists’ and ‘a courteous attitude from employees”. ...

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