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Dow Jones said parliament approved Thursday a plan to scrap 25,000 jobs by 2006 and close struggling mines in order to be fit for European Union membership.
Unionists however have not believed government promises that aid would be provided to miners who are made redundant. The strike on Monday saw 80% of the 140,000 miners working in the main Silesia mining region participating in the 24-hour walkout, Dow Jones said.
"We don't believe government promises of jobs elsewhere and money for the layoff because the government doesn't have any money - how can the government promise what they don't have," Zenon Kmiec, union leader at the Rozbark mine, told Dow Jones.
