On 9th of november 2007 in Steszew, near Poznan, Workers' Initiative organized a picket in front of the company's building. The reason for the action was an illegal dismission of one of the sindicate's members Lukasz Sybilak. Among the 30 protesters there were IW's activists together with the workers fromH. Cegielski Poznan company.

In march 2007, trying to break up the sindicate, which was demanding better working conditions and higher salaries, Greenkett illegally fired two other members of Workers' Initiative Jolanta Szypura and Aurelia Wlodarczyk. In Labour Court both sides came to an agreement, in which the company agreed to pay the dismissed workers 6000zl (1 euro = 3,6 zl) of indemnification together with the trial costs. As a result of a collective labour dispute the sindicate has achieved i.a. 10 % of salary increase, better working conditions and the pay of social benefits.

A protest has been underway at the Budryk mine since December 13. Budryk belongs to the State Treasury. The protest started with a hunger strike by six mine workers and was meant to force the Board of the mine to start collective bargaining with the workers.

On December 14th the Board's spokesman said in a television interview that the Board will not negotiate about pay increases with the workers unless a strike is started. With this, the Board gave a clear signal to the workers that calling a strike was the right way to start discussions.

At 6AM on December 17th the first shift at Budryk decided unanymously to start a strike.

The reason for the strike are the economic and social issues which make up the workers' collective demands.

Successive spreading of tactics amongst workers of the famous Poznan factory

Since 2002 the Workers Initiative (Inicjatywa Pracownicza - IP) has been working closely with the workforce of Cegielski plant in Poznan, successively convincing the majority of the workers of its tactics. These tactics are based on several simple principles: end of the conciliatory politics towards the enterprise management which were conducted here by trade unions; assurance of full access of the workers to information on the situation of the enterprise as well as on the situation of particular groups of workers employed in Cegielski; assurance of worker participation in the taking of relevant decisions; finally, creation of the ground for direct and struggles controlled from below. In the period of 7-8 years IP succeeded to introduce all these principles into working life, what led to the situation that in fact for about 1 year the personnel of Cegielski conducts permanent protests, which have brought till now high increases of the salaries and, above all, the radicalisation of the workers' attitudes within the plant.

Piotr's case came to an end. Krzyżaniak, who is an activist of the Workers' Initiative from Zielona Góra, was illegally fired from Auchan. On today's case in the court (25th June), a shopping centre in Zielona Góra put forward a proposal Auchan to reach an agreement, accepting two fundamental demands, a disciplinary dismissal was withdrawn and they withdrew claiming 4000 zlotys, which the employer said was stolen by Krzyzaniak. The day earlier, French CNT trade union organised actions against the concern in Nimes and Toulouse . French comrades announced to organise next protests in September.

Bartosz Kantorczyk, the member of The Workers' Initiative Trade Union in Gdans and the initiator of postmen strike in November 2006, was unlawfully dismissed. The unionist had demanded improvement of job security in accordance with the law and had denounced violations of the workers' rights by the management of the Polish Post.

Improving the job security of postmen delivering postal money orders was one of Workers' Initiative demands. Till now the employer didn't undertake negotiations with the union, which is unlawful. The management of the Polish Post is continuously questioning the existence and activity of the Workers' Initiative in the company, thereby break the Trade Unions Act.

Workers of the AUCHAN mall reveal cases of serious workers' rights violation. In reality a shift in the mall lasts from 16 up to 20 hours per day. Workers who don't want to subordinate are threatened with dismissals.

AUCHAN, the French giant, has opened its first mall in Kiev at the end of March 2008. At 15 thousand square metres of the surface over 500 workers were employed. However, the European logo of the company didn't mean European working conditions by no means - claim the employed.

In July several actions took place in Poland and in other European countries. They were a reaction to the dismissal of Bartosz Kantorczyk - Workers' Initiative activist in the Polish Post Office.

On 16 July in the morning a solidarity rally took place in front of the headquarters of Polish Post Office in Gdansk, where Bartosz worked. Around 30 post workers, WI activists from Gdansk, anarchists, leftists and friends of Bartosz gathered. The dismissed worker also came there and he was wearing a t-shirt saying "Dismissed but still inconvenient". The other demonstrators held banners saying "Hands off Workers' Initiative Trade Union", "Stop repression for strikes!". There were shouting slogans "No exploitation at life's expense!", "Managers go to work for 1000 zlotys (300 euro)", etc.

My, protestujący w dniu 20 czerwca br. w Poznaniu, spotykamy się po raz drugi w przeciągu ostatniego miesiąca, aby po raz kolejny upomnieć się o nasze prawa pracownicze. Solidaryzujemy się jednocześnie z protestującymi pracownikami Szczecina, Nysy i Ożarowa.

Do protestu prowadzonego przez szczecińskich Stoczniowców, pracowników Nysy Motor i Fabryki Kabli w Ożarowie dołączają kolejne załogi, które nie zamierzają pogodzić się z pogarszającą sytuacją polskich robotników. Protesty mają miejsce w Andrychowie, Olsztynie, Białymstoku, Łaziskach Górnych, Mesku i Brzegu. Nikt jednak w Warszawie zdaje się nie słyszeć ich wołania o prace i godną płacę. W 22 lata po Polskim Sierpniu i 12 lat po upadku systemu komunistycznego, musimy kolejny raz wystąpić przeciwko politycznym i gospodarczym elitom naszego kraju, które muszą wreszcie zrozumieć, że ten kraj nie jest ich prywatną własnością. Kazano nam zapomnieć, ale my pamiętamy, że najsilniejszą naszą bronią jest strajk generalny. Walcząc o nasze prawa, o godne życie, o pracę i chleb dla wszystkich, nie zawahamy się do niego przystąpić.