Tens of thousands of striking council workers disrupted public services across Scotland today while Scottish civil servants also struck for their own pay dispute.
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First issue of an irregular workers' bulletin put together by users of the website, libcom.org. This issue focuses on the 2008 pay dispute over sub-inflation pay offers.
Bartosz Kantorczyk, a member of The Workers' Initiative Trade Union in Gdansk in Poland and the initiator of postmen strike in November 2006, has been unlawfully dismissed. The unionists in the Polish post office 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. Management sacked Bartosz because he was such a high-profile union member, and therefore a threat to their ongoing exploitation of the workers.
The IWW is calling for a protest outside the Polish embassy to demonstrate against this blatant anti-union firing. The ongoing aggression towards Workers' Initiative activists, culminating in this firing and others, cannot be allowed to continue. Please forward this message, come to the demo and bring friends, workmates, banners and flags!
Location: Polish Embassy, 47 Portland Place, W1B
Map here
Nearest tubes: Regent's Park, great Portland Street.
Starts 4.30pm.
Be there, innit!