There was no dialog, the Prime Minister gave a monolog - Polish Nurses

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The Polish nurses that were occupying Poland Prime Minster Jaroslaw Kaczynski's Chancellery ceased the occupation after he met their demands and talked to them. But they say his talking with them consisted only of a monolog. They will continue to strike.

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They claim they were threatened with prosecution and pressured to leave the Chancellery. The security guards were reportedly nice to them. The worst was the arrogance of the Government.

The nurses have been striking for nine days now, and even after the Prime Minister relented and talked to them in the Chancellery, have vowed to continue the strike. Support for their cause is growing and they have been joined by miners and teachers.

According to the nurses, when Kaczynski talked to them he only talked about the Polish economy and said that there was no money to pay them more.

Jolanta Szczypinska, a Law and Justice Party Member, who had created an uproar by injecting clean underwear into the negotiations, Clean underwear for Polish nurses becomes negotiating point for Poland's Government: Nurses , also talked to them but, according to the nurses, she only defended the Government, her party and her ideology.

Kaczynski has proposed a referendum on a tax on the rich to raise money to pay the nurses. The nurses respond by saying, "Nie mozna robic z nas "Janosika"" . The reference is to a Robin Hood like character who took from the rich and gave to the poor. The nurses do not want any part of that.

A leading member of the opposition political party Civic Platform and Vice Speaker of the Polish Parliament, Bronislaw Komorowski, said that, in accordance with the requests of his party and the SLD, the Polish Parliament will be getting information about the status of the health care system and the progress with the nurses strike.

The Prime Minister is scheduled to meet with representatives of the striking nurses and doctors this evening at the Dialog Center.