Poland
Green Way Vegetarian Restaurant doesn't pay workers
Will young people organize against unpaid labour? Polish anarchosyndicalists are attempting to encourage this.
One anarchist from Poland wrote:
In 2005, there was the first information about problems in the Green Way restaurant in Łódź. In 2007, information on the subject was published on the portal CIA. Former employees pointed out that people were often hired on unpaid "trial periods". Such unpaid trial periods are illegal, but that doesn't stop sleazy employers from deceiving workers.
Occupation of Housing Authority
Tenants are occupying the housing authority in downtown Warsaw.
A group of tenants stormed the local housing authority in Warsaw this morning and have been occupying it ever since. The tenants, many of which are members of the Tenants Defence Committee, are demanding that the city resign from plans to turn off their gas.
Bus drivers' strike in Poland - workers' self-management as a victory? 2007
Wildcat's account of a successful strike of bus drivers in Poland against privatisation to Veolia and instead for a majority worker-owned company.
Hospital workers fight over pay in Poland, 2007
Wildcat's account and critical evaluation of a mass protest camp of thousands of nurses, and strike by doctors, in Poland fighting for a pay increase.
The nurses' tent village
Workers illegally fired in Poland's Special Zone of Exploitation - interview, 2006
An interview with Jacek Rosolowski, a sacked member of Workers Initiative about his job and organising drive in Poland's Special Economic Zone.
How long did you work for Impel-Tom? Where did you work before?
Interview with Polish Tesco Worker, 2005
An interview with a Polish agency worker who attempted to organise a reduction of workloads in a Tesco distribution centre in Ireland.
This interview, done by Jasoslaw Urbanski, was published in July 2005 in the Polish monthly Nowy Robotnik and in Wildcat no.74, summer 2005.
“We are picking 800 - No more!”
How did you get to Ireland?
Lodz/Poland: From the household appliance industry’s promised land, 2005
Wildcat Germany on the consumer electronics industry and conditions for workers in Lodz, Poland, following an attack on a foreman after the death of a worker.
Translated from Wildcat 75, December 2005
Razor Attack on Foreman in Lodz, 2005
Excerpts from a reportage from the daily paper Gazeta Wyborcza (17.10.2005). An accident in the Italian household appliance-factory Indesit in Lodz/Poland lead to an attack on a foreman by masked workers with a razor.
Eastern European migrants in France: the Polish example
Oiseau-tempête examine Eastern European migration to France, with particular attention to workers from Poland, analyse its effects on French society and debunk commonly held myths.
Few Eastern European workers migrate to France
