Firing in Poland

Hey put the address for nasty faxes:
Auchan Polska
Zielona Góra
Director Natasza Bloch
fax: 0 68 329 86 10

WSA will send fax tonight.

Is he the 9th WI member in the Auchan hypermarket in Zielona Gora to be fired? If so, seems like there's a good concentration of WI members in that company.

Laura you went crazy. It's bolshevik who is fired from group that hates you.

Me personally, hope not. I know it's a teenage shithead Dzerzhinsky fan. WI have lots of statist morons in it. If you don't like totalitarian communism, they'll call you a sectarian fascist or agent or something.

That aside, I think people in ZSP wanted to support this case because it was directly related to a picket done at Auchan to get better working conditions for everybody. So we support that issue, if not that individual.

If you have a different opinion, you should be writing to other people at ZSP.

I'm not comfortable with making support for Leninist entrists, but there's a way to concentrate rather on the company, their bad labour practices and repression of union activity. The issue isn't really about that guy.

To answer question about 9th person, it's the 9th person in general.

I don't know if there are any other people in that supermarket in WI although maybe there are, maybe there are supporters.

BTW, Auchan boasts about "employee participation" because over 80% of workers in Poland have stocks. So I suggested that as a concrete action, somebody get some proxies from other workers and go to the GSM and complain about working conditions in Poland.

PS to MK - You can still kick this guy's ass if you want. Better to harrass him on his Leninist forum.

Yikes, now you all say this stuff: Well solidarity with a fired worker never-the-less.

BY FACSIMILE ONLY
fax: 0 68 329 86 10
January 3, 2008
Auchan Polska
Zielona Góra

Director Natasza Bloch

Dear Ms. Bloch:

The Workers Solidarity Alliance (WSA) sends you our protest against the 31 December 2007 firing of Piotr Krzyzaniak.

We stand in protest against management's allegations against Mr. Krzyzaniak and his firing.

WSA stands in solidarity with Mr. Krzyzaniak. We further stand in support of the Workers' Initiative Trade Union demands that you end underage labor practices and a 300 zlotys monthly pay rise in Auchan.

Very truly yours,
Mike Harris
Corresponding Secretary

The guy was taken into the police today and his house searched.

Well this is a problem about how to deal with this since in WI are such Bolsheviks and even people who run for parliament on Self-Defense list with (former?) neo-nazis. For them this is irrelevant and members of WI start harrassing us if we "out" those people. But I have no obligation to agree with the politics of their members.

I sent a letter, but not in support of this person personally, but rather against anti-union practices of Auchan. There was union busting (OPZZ union) there about 3 years agp, I so said that as soon as anybody starts fighting to workers' rights, he's fired.

ZSP decided to try to support appeals against repression sent out by WI as a standard thing. Many of the anarchists in WI called on us to do it and it was agreed at ZSP Congress. So it was sent automatically to our pages in Poland and here. Later somebody brought to our attention that it was this crazy some of us know from the internet.

I don't know what people here feel about it, but I could add a note if I know about this, if it makes a difference to people. I'm personally very unconfortable about the situation. Sorry if that one hurt.

That's truth, supermarket is repressing because of union and protest. Last night police went to bolshevik's house and made searching, took him to police.

Bolsheviks make a demonstration I read on the web page. Better make the action for miners.