In: E. Menegatti ed., Law, Technology and Labour. Italian Labour Law e-Studies 2023, ISBN 9788854971080, pp. 89-103, https://illej.unibo.it/pages/estudies
On 22 October 2020, the Constitutional Tribunal (Poland's constitutional court) issued a ruling that effectively restricted the legality of abortion, which triggered massive protests ("women's strike"). In this paper, I take a deeper look at the women's strike in Poland in order to examine whether its central demand, i.e. the change of law on abortion, pertains to occupational or socio-economic interests of workers and thus meets the criteria for subject matter appropriate to a strike. I also discuss whether this demand may be raised by an actor, such as the "Polish Women's Strike", that is not a labour union. The model of the right to strike enshrined in the Polish Constitution and ILO standards (ILO case no 3111 against Poland) prompts a broad interpretation of the right to strike, which leads to the conclusion that politically motivated strikes are allowed under Polish law. I then review the potential interdependencies between abortion and workers' rights and argue that changing the law on abortion meets the legal criteria for strike demands. Nevertheless, organizations that are not created to represent the collective interests of workers have no legally sanctioned powers to call a strike.
In: Piotr Grzebyk, Ewa Rott-Pietrzyk, Chen Su eds, Sino-Polish Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Contract Law, Scholar 2020, ISBN 978-83-66470-09-5
In: Piotr Grzebyk, Franciszek Longchamps de Beriers, Chen Su eds., Theory and Practice of Codification: the Chinese and Polish Perspectives, Social Sciences Academy Press 2019, ss. 182-200, ISBN 978-7-5097-7987-3