POLAND: TENTATIVE AGREEMENT ON FARMERS' UNION

Created: 4/17/1981

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POLAND: Tentative Agreement on Farmers' Union

Farmers and government negotiators meeting in Bydgoszcz have workedraft agreementarmers' union, according to press reports. The Min- ster for Trade Union Affairs and the Deputy Minister for Agricultureuick trip to the area where farmer protests began after the six-week-old sit-in spreadearby town. The Polish Supreme Court late last year refused to sanction the registrationarmers' union, but since then the government has been searchingace-saving way to recognize suoh a- -

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The farmers have indicated they will continue their sit-in until the government establishes their union by law. Until now the government has used the lack ofaw to sidestep the issue.

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