About 50 wives of miners striking in the Budryk colliery in the Silesia province since mid December spent last night at Warsaw’s Dialog Social Partnership Centre.
The women arrived in Warsaw on Wednesday to meet Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Ecomony Waldemar Pawlak from Polish Peasants' Party (PSL) to discuss the situation in the protesting colliery. Pawlak, however, was on a scheduled visit to Lublin, in southeast Poland, and could not see the women yesterday.
One of the coalminers' wives, Jolanta Konieczna, said the women would stay in the capital for as long as it took the deputy premier to receive them.
Konieczna also admits that the situation may change after a meeting devoted to the coalminers' protest to be held by the Social Dialogue Commission on Thursday at noon. If satisfactory arrangements are made, the women will return to their homes in Silesia. (mj)