Ozzl.org.pl
Title
Ogólnopolski Związek Zawodowy Lekarzy
Description
OZZL was founded 1 st June 1991. It is the first strictly doctors’ trade union in Poland since World War Two. Joining our organisation is non-obligatory. Most of our members are salaried doctors under the administrative authority, mainly of a public employer, working full-time and part-time. We are open to doctors of various specialities and of different training period.
We have our representatives almost in all of 800 hospitals in Poland. After the first five-year’s period of our activity, we grew up even to 25,000 members from among 120,000 doctors and dentists working in our country. Now we lost many members, because of the changes in our healthcare system, which enabled to came a numerous private doctors’ and dentists’ surgeries (offices) and businesses into existence. Those firms are not working under rules of labour law currently. So, generally, we have around 14,000 members at present.
In our program we back up introducing of free market into the healthcare system everywhere, where it is possible. We demand to establish rational, free-market and competing healthcare system in Poland. This is our basic task. In parallel, as a trade (labour) union, we keep guard against breaking labour law by employers in hospitals and other health care plants, where doctors (our members) are engaged. If necessary, we support legal help for our members.
