Posted on 12/10/2006 10:14:28 PM PST by eastern
The strike of Polish workers maintaining the oil pipeline Druzhba (Friendship) is probable to halt Russian oil supplies to Germany and Poland. Workers are ready to come out, reports Oilru.com. However, trade unionists are still not sure whether they should stop the pipeline work or not. If so, Russian oil supplies to Germany and Poland will be jeopardized. Workers of the northern line of Druzhba are not satisfied with the Polish Ministry of economic affairs' intention to replace Pern (the company operating the pipeline) with a new one. Primarily the strike was to start 16 October, then it was postponed till 30 October, but in each case the prospect of talks with government representatives emerged and the walk-out was deferred to a later date. The latest breakdown of negotiations made the unionists set the strike-date December 6.
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