In Poland lately there were a lot of violations of union privileges. What's more - it is taking place in the country, where not so long ago workers have fought for free trade unions and they paid an excessive price for their liberality - the price of long standing jail or even life.

In this context to-day's attempts of people's actively engaged in union work persecutions by employers move disgust. Especially that those employers very often use protection of the police and the civil service. Human right and dignity don't matter any more - the most important is the profit of an investor and an owner. In the name of this kind of logic the lawlessness is taking place - because you are a member of trade union or you want to organise one - you can be dismissed, turned into the street, intimidated, you can become a victim of inexcusable violence.

Syndykalista Śląski - pismo IP ze Śląska
nr 6/2007

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- Praca w godzinach nadliczbowych
- Zastępstwo i nadgodziny
- Po okresie rozliczeniowym

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In Novemebr 2002 there were dramatical events in Ożarów's Factory of Cables. First, against the law, security guards hired by the owner removed violently workers blocking gate of factory. Then by five days workers and trade unionist supporting them fought with police protecting convoys removing equipment from factory. Eventually there was an agreement signed, stating that on area of Cable Factory there was supposed to be Special Economic Zone created, new industries and new places of work. Promises, signed from one side by TeleFonika and government, from other side by Protest Committee, were never kept.

Dominik S., 25 yrs old anarchist from Szczecin/Poland was 16.06.2003 sentenced by court to 6 month in 2 years probation time for "incitiment to sabotage". According to charges, Dominik incited his fellow workers to sabotage and direct actions against management of shipyard where he worked by way of articles in his paper "Shipyard worker" distributed in his workplace.

Prosecutor also demanded additional financial fine for Dominik, but this demand. was turned down by court.

Dominik will appeal from this sentence. He said that he only used freedom of speeech to inform workers about methods for defence of their rights.
He also wanted to thank all comrades fro mcoutnry and abroad who helped him by writing letters to court, publishing info about this case and shown solidarity in other ways.

Struggle continues!

Uniontex, clothing factory in Lodz, Poland is on strike since the beginning of June. Crew of 500 person occupies factory buildings to prevent the owner from dismantling the machines and emptying the stocks. Board of directors threaten them with lockout.

Uniontex, private cotton factory is a part of polish Fasty Holding, consisting of Uniontex (Lodz), Fasty (Bialystok) and Andropol (Andrychow). Since the beginning of the year it't facing serious financial troubles, caused by the icreasing costs of production and demand breakdown.

After 306 days long protest of ex-workers of Cables Factory in Ożarów Mazowiecki the protest has ended. Now about 400 people will start they work.

The end of the protest was able because of the agreement signed last Thursday. It says that ex-workers that started up the new partnership can lease workshops in the factories' area.

On Friday under the gate of the factory legally protesting people have ended their action.
"It was worth to protest. We can go back to our former workplaces. Although we won't produce cables, we will stay in the branch. And the workers don't have to convert" - said the chairman of Polish Protesting Committee Sławomir Gzik.

The Protesting Committee of Cables Factory in Ożarów would like to thanks cordially all people for words of support to their struggle and for all funds allocated for law assistance to people that are repressed due to defence of Cables Factory in Ożarów from 26th to 30th November 2002.

We will be in touch with informing you about the situation of the workers.

On Tuesday the 11th March, the 9days long action during what the Marshal's Office has been occupied by Komitet Obrony Szpitala Rydygiera (the Committee of Rydygier Hospital's Defence) has ended. The occupation was ended because the signing of the resolution proposed by K.O.S.

According to the resolution the Hospital will be liquidated only formally, what means its name will change but all the wards will be saved. Thanks to this "paper liquidation" all the debts of the Hospital become the Marshal's Office's debts and the Rydygier Hospital become the branch of Gromkowski Hospital. The process of transformation will last 3 years.

INTRODUCTION

A new wave of workers' strikes in Poland has appeared after 22 years since Polish August happened and after 13 years of the social and political changes beginning in 1989. In 2001 the social conflicts ran deeper. It is estimated that only in Warsaw about 183 strikes took place - what was the biggest abundance of social dissatisfaction since 1990. In 2002 number of open, especially workers' frictions in Poland has increased. Moreover, the employees have begun to organise the protests up and down the country.

Despite the fact that nowadays manifestations aren't as popular and as crowded as those 10 or 20 years ago, a lot of observers agree that they are the biggest wave of social discontent since the beginning of 1990. It contains major trade of Polish marketplace like shipyard and car industry, mining industry, metallurgy and medical care as well.

The workers of the cable factory in Ożarów have protested without any brake for over seven months. They are blocking the main gate of factory to make carries out of the machine industrial impossible.

The factory had worked without any problems (a lot of orders, good financial position, work on three shifts) as long as Tele-Fonica bought it. The new owner, Bogusław Ciupał, from day to day dismissed all crew and stopped the production.

The official reason why the factory should be closed was that marketplace of the telephonic cables broke down. The owner made nothing of the workers who could produce every kind of cables (not only telephonic), had a new technology, good machines and had fulfilled every order. No negotiation with the workers had been made. That's shows how owner of Tele-Fonica who has monopoly in the polish marketplace treats people working for him.