Appeal from the Strike Committee of the Budryk Mine

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sobota, 29 grudzień 2007

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…

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Action against Greenkett company

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poniedziałek, 10 grudzień 2007

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.…

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Bus drivers' strike in Kielce - workers' self-management as a victory?

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wtorek, 02 październik 2007

After 17 days the bus drivers in the South Polish city of Kielce have surprisingly won their strike. The sale of the communal bus company MPK planned by the city's mayor is stopped and MPK is given to the workers instead. The strike had been preceded by months of confrontation.…

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The nurses' tent village in Poland

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poniedziałek, 10 wrzesień 2007

This summer, several thousand nurses from Poland's state hospitals camped out in tents in front of the prime minister's office for four weeks [1]. Their protest was aimed at raising their poor wages of 1,200 to 1,300 Zl (approx. 320 Euros) a month [2]. The tent action itself was triggered…

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International Syndicalist Conference (I07) in Paris

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poniedziałek, 23 kwiecień 2007

International cooperation always was and will be one of the most important features of the anarchosyndicalist movement, differing it from national particularisms represented by other trade unions. Another argument for broadening international contacts is the growing globalisation process and mass economic migration.

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Another unlawful act of employers. IP activists are dismissed illegally

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niedziela, 25 marzec 2007

On the 22th march two trade union's activists, Aurelia Wlodarczyk and Jolanta Szypura from Workers' Initiative, were dismissed by Greenkett Poland. They were both active in works of trade union and Aurelia Wlodarczyk was protected by the law. Dismissal process broke the act about trade unions, therefore the notice was…

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The interview with four delegates of the commission of Worker's Initiative from Greencett factory

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sobota, 17 marzec 2007

What does the company you work for do?Greenkett is a Spanish company that produces wooden flooring. It has been existed in Debno near Steszew for 3 years. Semi-finished wooden products are coming here from Spain and go back after being transformed by us. There are 120 people working in the…

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Precarity at work - the analisys of the problem and the strategy of the resistance

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czwartek, 15 marzec 2007

Precarity is the one of the most important phenomena of the neoliberal globalisation process. Evolution of the precarity is an attack on stability and certainty of employment, basic labour rights (adequate payment, the right to organize in the place of employment, protection from excessively long working time, protection from sacking)…

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We remember Ozarow. The campaign against IMPEL firm starts

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sobota, 10 luty 2007

Impel commonly breaks the workers rights. In 2002 the bodyguards of Impel-Security pacified brutally the famous protest of Telefonika crew at the cable factory in Ozarow Mazowiecki (near Warsaw). Workers had been defending their factory from liquidation in order to maintain workplaces in the city. On 26 of November 2002,…

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Polish Post uses repression against strikers

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niedziela, 04 luty 2007

After the strikes of postal workers in November, the authorities of Polish Post (Poczta Polska) are repressing the participants of the protest and also trade union activists. Bartosz Kantorczyk, one of the people that have started the strike, was moved to work in another post office.

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Volkswagen is closing down the factories

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poniedziałek, 11 grudzień 2006

VW has decided to move the production of the Golf from Brussels to Mosel and Wolfsburg in Germany. This means that 4,000 (out of 5,400) jobs in Brussels are threatened by redundancy. Additionally, similar fate can happen to 1,000 jobs in VW Pamplona (Spain) and VW Palmela (Portugal). The VW…

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Postal workers strike in Poland

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niedziela, 10 grudzień 2006

Very bad situation of Polish postal workers, especially postmen, has been a serious problem in Poland for years. One of the biggest weak points is the fact that postmen very often work more than eight hours a day (eight hours is the standard amount of working hours in Poland), they…

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Next activists of Workers' Initiative was fired

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niedziela, 12 listopad 2006

The Impel-Tom Company in Zielona Gora has fired the next three activists of Workers' Initiative because they spoke loudly and openly in court about the illegal activity of their employer towards their labour union.

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Labour Court deliverd a verdict in the case of Slawomir Kaczmarek

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poniedziałek, 09 październik 2006

After many months of protest, on the 26th of September 2006 the Labour Court in Lodz delivered the verdict in case of Slawomir Kaczmarek. The chairman of the committee of All-Polish Trade Union Workers' Initiative in the Uniontex S.P. company in Lodz has been fired on December 2004, in spite…

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Special Zone of Exploitation. An interview with Jacek Rosołowski (fired member of WI)

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sobota, 12 sierpień 2006

How long did you work for Impel-Tom? Where did you work before? I got a job in September 2005. Before I couldn't find any job. I worked on a construction-sites, took some seasonal and temporary jobs. In the city where I live (Kostrzyn on the Oder river, western Poland) the…

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