Trucks Clog Polish Borders

196147 Resource 165490 94146 94146 1201895567590 1201895797223 Controlled Truckers have 36 to 70 hour wait time at Poland’s borders

The customs workers are protesting their low wages by not showing up to work. Long lines of truckers have formed at the border crossings. As of today the situation is starting to improve and will hopefully be back to normal in 3 days.

Truckers are losing 1 million Euros (1.48 million dollars) a day in <country-region w:st="on" /><place w:st="on" />Poland</place /></country-region />.  Custom workers are not on strike, but are taking days off and sick days to slow down the borders in protest of their wages.  The custom workers are part of the public-sector and they want their wages to be in line with the private sector wages.  The Poland Union of Road Transport Employers, in protest of the custom workers, threatened to blockade cities in <country-region w:st="on" />Poland</country-region />, including <city w:st="on" /><place w:st="on" />Warsaw</place /></city />.As of today, the lines have improved at the borders.  According to a Polish radio: “roughly 50% of staff has returned to work at the checkpoints in Dorohusk and Hrebenne on the border with <place w:st="on" /><country-region w:st="on" />Ukraine</country-region /></place />.”  Currently there is a 36 – 48 hour wait to cross the border.  It is predicted that it will take at least another three days for the borders to return to normal.  9 application/xml false Custom Strike Poland Poland Union of Road Transport Employers Supply Chain truckers Warsaw blockade Trucks Clog Polish Borders Logistics Today http://www.logisticstoday.com/displayStory.asp?sNO=9211&OASKEY=BreakingNews Situation on Polish border improves Polskieradio, PL http://www.polskieradio.pl/zagranica/news/artykul74826_Situation_on_Polish_border_improves.html Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 Establish 208.105.4.154 false true false false true 187565 false false true false false false true 165490 blog blogsite/ChinaSupplyChain/web