Great Britain/Poland: interunion cooperation agreement between the TUC, Solidarnosc and OPZZ

On September 25, 2008, in London, Brendan Barber, leader of the TUC, Janusz Sniadek, leader of Solidarnosc and Jan Guz, leader of the OPZZ, signed a cooperation agreement aimed at providing support on social matters to the thousands of Polish people working in Great Britain. (Ref. 080735)
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This agreement, concluded for four years, mainly aims at providing support to Polish workers present on the British labor market and prevent social dumping. The agreement both concerns British people working in Poland and Polish people working in Great Britain, although the numerical difference is obvious. Thus, the agreement plans information campaigns and training activities on labor law and unions’ role. For that purpose, the three unions will prepare documents in English and in Polish. In a

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