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Poland: Pay deal averts coal miners' strike

Management and trade unions at Kompania Węglowa, Europe's largest coal-mining company, reached a pay agreement on 2 April 2009, resulting in the cancellation of a planned strike.

The state-owned Kompania Węglowa (KW) has a workforce of around 65,000 at 16 mines in Poland.