ROUGH CUT -- NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> <br />Some 100,000 people from across Poland took the streets of Warsaw to protest government policies and the country's severe economic slowdown.<br/> <br />The trade unionists gathered at the De Gaulle Roundabout in downtown Warsaw before marching towards the Presidential Place and Zamkowy Square.<br/> <br />The protest was organised by Poland's three main trade unions, Solidarity, All-Poland Alliance of Trade Unions (OPZZ) and Trade Unions Forum (FZZ).<br/> <br />Protesters were demonstrating against liberal policies of Donald Tusk's Government, against "junk" employment contracts, low minimum wages and a hike in the retirement age.<br/> <br />Tusk plans to transfer a big chunk of the assets held by private pension funds, known by the Polish acronym OFE, into a state vehicle. It also wants to scrap a requirement for savers to pay contributions into the private funds.<br/> <br />A pension reform bill is likely to be put before parliament in the next month or two.<br/> <br />It w
