"Public healthcare is dying!!! All-Poland protest of healthcare workers"
"Remember, a nurse and a midwife are capital, not a cost. Enough!!!"
"All-Poland Labor Union of Nurses and Midwives - Lubusz Region - Decent wages! According to the value of work and not as someone pleases"
"We slave away for three shifts yet earn pennies"; "Money for hospitals, not for arms"
"Supreme Chamber of Nurses and Midwives"
"Polish Teacher's Union"
!["Dear Mr. Minister [of Education], the magic of presentation won't work. Teachers are able to count and they counted that after the proposed reforms take effect, their real wages will increase by... 30 PLN!"](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/8258b37e-c8ca-46fa-a125-b7e45be074bb/9d520f93-090a-4d18-b9ec-70d04f51d7f2_rw_1200.jpg?h=190832631cdc6c96132c96ba8bf0f3ce)
"Dear Mr. Minister [of Education], the magic of presentation won't work. Teachers are able to count and they counted that after the proposed reforms take effect, their real wages will increase by... 30 PLN!"
"People, not angels"
"Poland"
"A decent life for everyone"
"Stop financial violence"
"Let live!"
"Enough of ignoring the voice of workers!"
"Enough exploitation"
"Garbage government, garbage contracts"
"Terminate the contract with BUWBAR and open a canteen!"
On 11 September 2021, tens of thousands of medical workers demonstrated in Warsaw as labor unions from a variety of different healthcare professions came together to organize one of the largest labor actions in Poland in recent years. Medical workers demanded urgent pay raises in addition to calling for reforms of Poland's crippled healthcare system. Most medical staff in Poland are overworked, severely underpaid, often work extra shifts to make ends meet, and find the status quo to be unbearable.
Later, on 9 October 2021, Poland’s largest teacher's union, the ZNP, organized a protest against the education minister's degradation of the Polish education system as well as a proposal to extend working hours as a stipulation to a pay rise. Labor unions argued that teachers could actually end up earning less as a result of the proposed reforms, as well as crushing school's autonomy while offering nothing in improving working conditions for teachers and students. The education minister at the time, Przemysław Czarnek, known for his aggressive anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-feminist rhetoric, was shown a symbolic red card by protesting teachers outside of the ministry.
On 18 February 2023, disabled people and their caretakers organized a protest outside of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw. The group demanded that the Polish government pass legislation to allow caretakers to work part time without losing the financial support that they receive from the state. In Poland, caretakers of those diagnosed with a disability are entitled to 2,119 złoty per month in financial support, (an amount lower than the minimum wage), however, if the caretaker takes up any other paid work, the financial support is forfeited in its entirety.
Disaffected workers once again took to the streets of Warsaw on 27 September 2025 in a large protest organized by the OPZZ labor union, demanding better wages and more government support for deteriorating public services. In November of the same year, youth unionists of the All-Poland Trade Union Workers' Initiative (Polish: Ogólnopolski Związek Zawodowy Inicjatywa Pracownicza) marched through Warsaw in protest of exploitative labor practices that hit young workers and students particularly hard.
In June 2026 student activists carried a symbolic cardboard coffin around the University of Warsaw campus during a mock funeral procession welcoming the closure of the university's premium food hall, BUWBAR. The establishment shut down after only a month of operation following intense protests by students, who were promised an affordable canteen by the university's rector but were instead given a food hall offering expensive meals beyond student budgets.