EURO-work?

The Polish capital with its 1,8 Mio. inhabitants made on me always an impression of a busy, fast growing and lively city, but during the European Football Championship it was even more of almost everything. More "reklama", more people (especially more tourists who tried to test the policemen whether they do speak English or not), more closed roads and also more workers on the streets.

It was obvious that through EURO 2012 a lot of new jobs were created... people working as gardeners, cleaners, policemen, distributors of leaflets, for security-purposes, to put make-up on people in the colours of the countries and, last but not least, the construction workers, who built the highways and, for example, the Warsaw National Stadium.

But who are these people? How were their work conditions? And will they have to face unemployment after the EURO 2012? Of course it is a broad topic, but maybe there are some points to learn about this.

• within 4 years of preparation works for the championship in Poland 6 construction workers died who worked on the big building sites (in Ukraine they speak officially of 14)
• construction workers were mainly hired through subcontractors, which increased the delays of the payment of the wages
• during the last 4 years work-inspectors stopped the construction works on EURO-buildings 180 times (with fines of only around 65,000 €)

And all the others?

Well, for the most of the people who found work during EURO 2012, it was rather a temporary way to earn money. Although the people for example who were working in the Fanzone gained a lot of experience, only a few of them will still be employed after the matches. As experts underline, also in Poland there is and will be only little chance to get an unlimited job contract in these days of economic troubles.

Although the Polish people won't gain profit through more jobs from that event, but at least they will sooner or later gain from the new highways, new streets, new tramlines and - even later - from the second metro line in Warsaw, which was (as expected) not finished until the EURO.






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Die Begegnung "Das Spiel dauert 90 Minuten - und dann?" wird ermöglicht durch die finanzielle Unterstützung des Deutsch-Polnischen Jugendwerks (DPJW/PNWM) im Rahmen des Wettbewerbs "Treffpunkt übermorgen - Spotkajmy się pojutrze".