Anarchic update news all over the world - 7.10.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  [Spain] World "strike" for climate? By ANA (pt) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  [Spain] Anarchist Declaration Against Climate Change By ANA
      (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  US, black rose fed: PABLO VIVE! - THE PABLO BARBANEGRA
      READER -- Pablo "Barbanegra" Avendaño - 1983-2018
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland): Interesting
      perspective on Extinction Rebellion (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Britain, brighton solfed: G4Lets rent strike: tenants
      successfully regain their deposits (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Poland, Workers' Initiative: Exploitation and pedicure.
      People aged 60+ on the Poznan labor market [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Capitalism is the main cause of climate change and the destruction of the planet, but let
us not forget that those who now criticize it opportunistically are also the supporters of
an authoritarian communism that has caused enormous damage. Let us not fall into its false
dichotomy between capitalism and statist communism. We defend a socioecological model
based on self-management. ---- Climate change is no longer a warning, it is a stark
reality. For decades the ecologist movement has been alarming about the tragic
consequences of not ending global warming to which we are subjecting the planet, our
common home, which has been cut like a cake, to reap more benefits than it can produce. Of
course, the current culprit in the exponential deterioration that we are subjecting the
planet to is voracious capitalism, whether neoliberal, globalized, market economy, or
whatever adjectives they want to fashion to make it more digestible. When the productive
system is based on obtaining the maximum benefits in the shortest possible time without
regard to the consequences, it overlooks not only the rights of the working class, but
also the environmental problems that alter all ecosystems,

Having made this criticism of capitalism, now exploited by those who have seen the wall
fall from its authoritarian communist model to try to appear a little, we must also
reproach those who for what they call state interest, under the economic system they
defend, have committed themselves few ecological crimes. This is the drying up of the Aral
Sea, the Chernobyl accident, the fact that during the cold war Czechoslovakia was the most
contaminated country in Europe, or the Maoist China's erroneous determination to
exterminate sparrows to achieve more grain production. Mao Tse Tung maintained that "man
must defeat nature" and his obstinacy caused an ecological imbalance that cost the death
of hunger to over 30 million obedient followers. All this also happened, yes,

It hurts to think that this social model to which one still aspires is presented as an
alternative to the ecological disasters of capitalism, because only when the control of
production escapes the hands of those who generate it, who is interested in maintaining a
respectful ecological balance, tends to destroy the surroundings. Serve as an example our
communal woods. In some, for decades, no fire has been produced, as it is the same
residents who manage the forest environment on which they subsist. A model that reminds us
of other Amazonian communities that they now expel after burning the jungle to produce
soybeans to feed the rich world and cattle. So, speaking of respect for the environment,
we should not fall into the dichotomy we tend to present between capitalism or statist
communism,

Nowadays, the submission of those who govern us to the economic power makes them legislate
favoring contaminating productive forms. That is why they are generating serious
environmental problems, and certainly the most urgent, due to the effects we are already
suffering, of climate change. Among the most well-known consequences is the rise in
temperature caused by the accumulation of contaminating gases.

Slowly we see how the heat waves are more suffocating, how the glaciers melt, how the sea
level rises to the point that the transfer of cities into the land has to be proposed, as
many species irreversibly disappear, as the phenomena recur. extreme weather or how crop
yields are reduced with the damaging consequences it causes.

For capitalism, anything goes in its pursuit of immediate benefit, even if for that they
have to transform life on the planet and the collective interest into real money, plastic
or virtual, destined for tax havens. A money from which few hands will benefit. This is
your handbook: Accumulating Wealth by Fostering a Society Based on Believing Those We
Transform and Produce Products that the image they sell us, that of consumerism, is our
goal. Nothing more degrading or derogatory for the working class than this competitive,
non-supportive and irrational society.

In this social model of consumption, among other things, you can not be happy if you do
not have your own vehicle or if you can not assume in the social networks of a
transcontinental and highly contaminating holidays. Polluting cars are aspired to be
subsidized, and when it has contributed to the problem of air pollution it is threatened
with sanctions if they do not surrender to buy another that works with another type of
energy. Because this is another one, commuting by private vehicle and away from jobs. Is
there anything less ecological?

And have a teenager in front of the screen so we can demand more government summits and
demobilize! Enough of symbolic strikes and silent concentrations like requiem masses for a
planet in destruction. When class consciousness is lost and the struggle to convert a
common necessity into a punctual and playful journey is abandoned, at least not to detract
from the revolutionary meaning of a strike. Our presence in the demonstration, separated
from traditional counterparts and within the framework of a libertarian bloc, responds to
the need to denounce that respect for the planet is incompatible with capitalist
consumerism and statist communism.

Let's fight for a socioecological model based on self-management.

CNT Catalonia (AIT)

September 2019

Translation> Sol de Abril

anarchist news agency-ana


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Climate change is the product of industrial society born two centuries ago in Europe and
violently imposed on the rest of the world. It has been two centuries of continuous
poisoning by all kinds of harmful effects that has brought devastating consequences:
deforestation, desertification, drought, floods, scarcity, violent storms, extinction of
millions of species... In this situation, many seek a solution... ---- * Statist and
leftist solutions: reforms that only lead to an intensification of misery beyond what we
can imagine. Leftist solutions not only do not criticize industrial society, but place it
in a privileged place in every process of change. Any solution to climate change must come
from its technologies, when we saw that it was the development of industrial or complex
technologies that caused climate change, it is the advance of the ideology of progress.
Creating the illusion that there are technological shortcuts without taking into account
the root causes of climate change: especially greenhouse gas emissions. One such
technological "solution" is climate manipulation through geoengineering, which poses major
risks to ecosystems, because it is based on excessive consumption of land, water and other
natural elements that some insist on calling resources. Those who see the solution in
technology are constantly blinding: GMOs would end world hunger ... green energy with
contamination ... all to keep the techno-scientific system working, but increasing the
misery of those who need to survive in it. Statists and leftists promote the regulation of
harmfulness, try to hide that to regulate them is to accept their existence, promoting
treaties that regulate the emission of greenhouse gases. It's a distraction maneuver.
Reducing emissions means increasing the amount of gases, but more slowly. Climate changes
as a function of the amount of carbon or methane, not annual emissions into the
atmosphere; therefore, Reducing emissions continues to trigger climate change. So
leftists, politicians, NGOs... just want to regulate the devastation, the same one that is
killing everything that lives anywhere on the planet, to continue living in this
technological sleepwalking.

* Green capitalism, social control and acceptance of living conditions: The climate crisis
will not destroy capitalism, we are not facing a collapse, but a restructuring of living
conditions. Industrial capitalism is adapting to the end of fossil fuel existence and,
following its logic of efficiency and effectiveness, has become green and ecological,
promoting and developing alternative energies so that the world can continue to function
as it is now, the so-called energies. Greens perpetuate the existence of capitalism.
Moreover, there are no green and / or clean energies in industrial society. Green energies
continue to wreak havoc, from solar energy whose silicon-composed solar panels (whose
extraction poisons areas near the mine with devastating consequences on the lives of those
populating nearby areas) to wind energy whose materials are produced in the same way.
Nothing is green in industrial society, the production of green cars (or any other
industrial artifact) creates hundreds of harms from the extraction of the materials that
make it up, the energy needed for its operation, to the manufacturing process, not to
mention of the social relationships that all this generates. The green world of green
energy will lead us to the same nightmare that produced the "green revolution" of the last
century. The production of green cars (or any other industrial artifact) creates hundreds
of harms from the extraction of the materials that make it up, the energy needed for its
operation, to the manufacturing process, not to mention the social relationships that all
this generates. . The green world of green energy will lead us to the same nightmare that
produced the "green revolution" of the last century. The production of green cars (or any
other industrial artifact) creates hundreds of harms from the extraction of the materials
that make it up, the energy needed for its operation, to the manufacturing process, not to
mention the social relationships that all this generates. . The green world of green
energy will lead us to the same nightmare that produced the "green revolution" of the last
century.

Faced with the devastation caused by climate change, capitalism is developing social
control measures as millions flee places that climate change will make uninhabitable.
Europe is already protecting itself with countless measures: from militarized borders,
strict internal security measures, biometric surveillance, DNA testing, and more. All this
aiming at the control and repression of those who have no place in the European fortress
and its inhabitants who rebel against the imposed living conditions. It is necessary to
attack the root of the problem: the industrial organization of the world, the
techno-scientific society and its world without delegating anything or anyone. Only then
can we end a catastrophe that is already underway.

Anarchist Block Against Climate Change (Madrid)

Source: https://contratodanocividad.noblogs.org/madrid-bloque-anarquista-
find-el-cambio-climatico- 8-de-  septiembre

Translation> keka

Related Content:

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of September/

anarchist news agency-ana

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On the evening of May 12th, 2018 - the day before Mother's Day - our friend and comrade
Pablo accepted a bike courier gig that would offer extra money for working in inclement
weather at night - app based food delivery service Caviar. In the darkness and rain of
that night his tire became lodged in a storm drain leading to the fatal accident which
took his life. Pablo was 34 years old. He was full of life and love. He influenced and
deeply touched the lives of so many. His many close friends, comrades, family members and
loved ones will forever miss him, but carry him with them as they were all deeply
influenced by his beautiful heart, mind and life. ---- Pablo was born and raised in Miami
to working class Argentinian parents and the oldest of four brothers. He was a founding
member of Miami Autonomy and Solidarity, a high school teacher and workplace organizer,
and played an important role in the founding of Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist
Federation. Moving to Philadelphia in 2013 he participated in anti-police organizing and
became a member of Philly Socialists.

Today, October 1st, 2018, would have been Pablo's 35th birthday and in celebration of his
work and ideas we are releasing "The Pablo Barbanegra Reader" of his political writings.
We honor his life - taken too soon! - and ask you to consider how to live your life as
truly as he did, driven from the deepest faith in and connections to a heart full of love
and ideals of freedom, equality, solidarity and liberation.

Pablo Vive! Osito Vive!

Click HERE for reader
http://blackrosefed.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Pablo_Reader_V1.3-Bday-Edition2.pdf

http://blackrosefed.org/pablo-barbanegra-reader/

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Interesting perspective and what appears to be a lack of willingness to learn from other
movements rather than being convinced you already have the answer ---- "This kind of
groupiness isn't uncommon, not only on the sectarian left but also in the world of NGOs
and brands, which XR straddles rather awkwardly. Common to all of them is not only
(rightly) stressing the problems and their urgency, but (wrongly) generating what we would
have called a bubble before the term got debased in op-eds: a situation where members talk
messianically at the outside world about the crucial importance of Their Way, but rarely
meet or discuss with people in other organisations who use other strategies and tactics.
Often there is little or no awareness within such organisations that other people have
also been working on these issues for a long time, perhaps even with more success, and
that there are other organisations and approaches both in one's home country and in the
rest of the world. Part of the reason for this is a good one: that the organisation is
bringing in new people, with little or no previous experience of activism, or who have
been inactive for long periods. The downside is when the more experienced members allow or
encourage the newcomers to believe that their way is the only way worth taking seriously,
and not being honest with them about the crucial question: "how can we know what will
actually work?"

Raising this sort of question about XR does not mean taking the climate crisis lightly,
refusing to engage in radical action, or being hostile to new approaches. The climate
strikes, for example, have mobilised far larger numbers of people, on a far more
international scale, but do not run these same risks. For a start, they don't involve the
claim that this is the only way to resist climate change or to force political action. The
strikes are not scrupulously branded, but involve the participation of a wide range of
different organisations. And while their participants are in many cases equally new to
activism, the school students at least can be expected to learn as they go, and eventually
move into other forms of struggle.

The point in writing this is not to attack XR, but to encourage a bit more openness,
reflection and learning - not just "training" where the organisation is assumed to have
all the answers already. It would be a huge pity if XR were to become the new SWP. Nobody
in their right mind wants to see the 2020s full of people saying "I tried activism and it
was a waste of time" as the sea rises and the land burns. It would be fantastic if there
were thousands, or even tens of thousands, of experienced activists able to say "I started
out thinking that if enough of us were arrested the government would have to come on
board, but then we learned a bit more through actions and discussion, and developed more
effective ways of doing things".


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This summer, over a dozen G4Lets tenants successfully withheld their final month's rent
payment to claim back their tenancy deposit. G4Lets are notorious deposit thieves, usually
taking most or all of a deposit for dubious and inflated charges that take months to
challenge through their chosen deposit protection scheme, MyDeposits. ---- This year,
since the spring, a number of G4Lets tenants have been organising with us to avoid this
scenario themselves. G4Lets rent exclusively to students and most of their tenancies
finish around the same time, in the summer months. Over the past two years, we have
organised with tenants who have had thousands of pounds stolen from their deposits by
G4Lets. These tenants were only able to reclaim part of this money via MyDeposits' dispute
resolution service. Dispute resolution with MyDeposits takes three to four months,
involves a lot of paperwork, and is at points incredibly vague, such as about the
definition of the notoriously broad category of ‘fair wear and tear'. Further, their
insurance-based protection scheme allows landlords to keep hold of, and thus earn interest
on, the deposit for the entirety of the tenancy. It's no wonder they are the go-to
protection scheme for gutter agencies like G4Lets.

Based on these previous experiences, this year we suggested to G4Lets' tenants that the
quickest way to get their deposit back would be to not pay their final month's rent. This
way, the agency keeps the deposit to pay the rent but can't make any dodgy deductions, and
the tenant walks away with their deposit without the hassle of having to engage with the
deposit protection scheme. This is a tactic for resisting landlord and letting agency
exploitation that many engage in on their own on a regular basis. We suggested to the
G4Lets tenants that they do this collectively, giving them the protection and solidarity
of mass action. Over a dozen tenants decided to do this, coming along to drop-ins to talk
through the details, discussing the issue with housemates and encouraging them to
participate, and staying in regular contact with us and other tenants during the strike
itself. In response to these tenants withholding their final month's rent, G4Lets took
this money from their deposits. This meant that the tenants walked away with their
deposits with minimal hassle, and that G4Lets weren't able to make any dodgy deductions,
since the entirety of the deposit was spent on paying the final month's rent.

This has been a really encouraging action; firstly because it was a simple but effective
way of dealing with the problem of deposit theft, and secondly because it was undertaken
collectively, protecting the tenants from repercussions and showing what can be achieved
when we act together.

There are also a few useful lessons that can be learned. These include that if you are
going to reclaim your deposit this way, it's important to withhold the amount of rent that
matches the cost of your deposit. This might be six weeks rent rather than four. You're
still safe from eviction if you do this, as you can see in our guide to withholding rent
to get your deposit back here. If you don't do this, the agency will almost certainly keep
the missing rent from your deposit and whatever money is left over, as a couple of tenants
experienced. It's also important to remember that if you have withheld your final month's
rent, you shouldn't provide your current landlord or letting agency as a reference, as
they will probably have something to say about this. If you are in this situation, there
are alternative ways that you can provide a ‘previous landlord' reference - get in touch
with us for some advice on that.

We're pleased that these tenants were spared the hardship of being out of pocket and the
hassle of going through dispute resolution. Practical, collective action remains our
strongest, most useful defence against the attacks on our lives by landlords and letting
agencies.

Problems with your landlord? Email: housing@brightonsolfed.org.uk

http://www.brightonsolfed.org.uk/brighton/g4lets-rent-strike-tenants-successfully-regain-their-deposits

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The Polish Trade Union Workers' Initiative intervened in the case of 20 people employed by
external companies at porters in six facilities administered by the Poznan Board of
Municipal Housing Resources. Although a number of serious irregularities have been
identified, the city actually legitimizes exploitation. ---- Guarded facilities are
clinics, buildings in which cultural institutions, public offices and offices operate.
Sometimes empty. Property security agencies, which sometimes cooperate with related
temporary work agencies, receive orders for their supervision. ---- Business carousel ----
Until August 28 last year, the employer of porters and porters was the company KAIO Sp. z
o. o. She employed on "junk contracts", did not properly pay ZUS contributions, forced her
to work 250 hours or more per month for rates lower than the minimum wage. In real terms,
employees were paid PLN 8 net of tax per hour, i.e. approx. PLN 1 below the minimum.
Employees were forced to declare that they agreed that the company would wash their
uniforms for this difference. However, they were not even issued to them. In the summer,
comments began to appear on various forums. A person who started to protest against this
and revealed irregularities lost their job.

In the meantime, the tender for the provision of property security services in six
facilities from August 28 to the end of 2018 was won by VISION GROUP Sp. z o. o. and
employees were taken over by CAPREA as a temporary employment agency (and rented by VISION
GROUP). The employees, however, were convinced that behind the changing companies stands
the same arrangement as before. Despite the name change, the same coordinators or people
settling working hours (accounting) contacted them regarding formal matters. This time,
the requirement to win the tender was to employ employees for employment contracts.
However, CAPREA only hired employees and employees for 1/16 of a full-time position, and
the remaining part of the work provided was still subject to civil law contracts. This was
inconsistent with the terms of the tender and the contract with ZKZL.

After protests by the Employee Initiative at the end of November 2018, ZKZL terminated the
contract with VISION GROUP. For the period of a month and a half, employees and security
employees were taken over by PEWNOSC. The success of the union was that a person who had
previously disclosed abuse and who was deprived of employment was recruited to his
previous position. On the other hand, the termination of the ZKZL contract with the VISION
GROUP resulted in employees and employees not being paid for October and November 2018.

Helpless inspection, delayed the prosecutor's office

The Labor Inspectorate, notified of all this, proved helpless. PIP has repeatedly
attempted to contact CAPREA Sp. z o. o. at the company's headquarters, however, they
proved unsuccessful. "In addition, requests were submitted to the employer by post
requiring them to appear and produce the documents indicated therein." Also without
effect. There is concern - the Labor Inspector wrote to the association - "that the
behavior of the employer is aimed at deliberately and intentionally avoiding carrying out
an inspection". PIP, like the Employee Initiative before, notified the prosecutor's
office. The hearings of witnesses of abuse did not start until May 2019. To this day, we
do not know what the final findings and decisions of the prosecutor's office in this case are.

The activities of the PIP and the prosecutor's office did not prevent CAPREA from
responding to this situation by a letter addressed to former employees, in which ZKZL is
responsible for the lack of payments for October and November 2018.

In the meantime, porters and porters remained on January 15 this year. taken over by
another company - SPQ. Because this change was taking place in a hurry, several previously
injured employees were not admitted to work. In other words, they lost their wages first
and eventually their jobs. This resulted in further interventions of the Employee
Initiative at ZKZL.

This scenario repeated itself in June, when another tender was settled, but it was only
possible in relation to one object - at Kórnicka Street. This time the WOLF company won
and more people lost their jobs. The last act took place in September, when the tender for
the remaining five facilities was once again announced. Four facilities were taken over by
PEWNOSC and one by HUNTERS.

Most employees from the current cast lost their employment. CERTAINTY released rebellious
porters and porters on the pretext of employing only persons with a disability
certificate. However, the HUNTERS representative was simply to state that he always
exchanges half of the staff from the acquired facility. Ultimately, more than 3/4 porters
and porters who had previously protested against working conditions and who had not been
paid for October and November 2018 lost their jobs.

Crawling lockout

Since autumn 2018, ZKZL has imposed on companies the necessity of employment under
employment contracts (why so late?) And ensuring at least a minimum wage. The assessment
of the offer of security companies began to depend not only on the price of the service
offered, but also on the amount of employees' remuneration. However, many provisions of
the Labor Code have been and are still being violated, insecure employment (four employers
have changed for a year), minimum wage or slightly higher. It must be said, however, that
in relation to what KAIO and CAPREA did, the situation improved - under the pressure of
employees and the relationship, the greatest pathology was eliminated.

 From the very beginning, the union demanded that porters and porters be employed
directly. ZKZL, or more broadly the city, does not want to guarantee this working group
the same working conditions as other employees in municipal institutions. On the contrary,
it is determined to maintain outsourcing, the most shameful and unfair form of labor
exploitation. There is no doubt that this is a kind of "crawling lock". In fact, not only
companies providing property protection services in Poznan, but ultimately also ZKZL,
wanted to silence rebellious porters and porters.

ZKZL advocates outsourcing for two arguments. First, he argues that giving up this form of
outsourcing would force him to maintain an "intervention group," usually called porters
and porters, when "something is going on" on the premises. This is a completely
unconvincing argument. Some security companies have "intervention groups" basically only
on paper. They would have to travel, for example, from Szczecin, which - as we guess -
makes no sense. It is also unknown why porters and porters should not call the Poznan City
Guard or the Police, especially since we are talking about the protection of public
facilities.

Secondly - ZKZL maintains that it cannot impose on whom companies to employ, and with low
unemployment, possibly those who are laid off will not have a problem finding a job. It
should be noted here that the Labor Code requires equal treatment in employment. This not
only means that you can not unfairly differentiate working conditions for individual
employees, but also clear employment conditions should apply, giving equal opportunities
to everyone. Especially if we are finally talking about public funds for salaries.
Therefore, you cannot arbitrarily recruit anyone you want, at the discretion of the head
of a private security company. Finally, the representatives of ZKZL, who, arguing in this
case, refer to the mechanisms of the labor market, apparently do not understand all its
aspects. Have they not heard

For breathlessness

Here we come to the main conclusion. Working at porters are mainly seniors and seniors,
often over 60 years old, pensioners. The motive for starting work is primarily low
benefits and pensions, which force you to continue working. Suffice it to say that the
average pension in Poland currently (Q1 2019) is PLN 2237 gross (PLN 1853 net). Women
receive even less - on average 1845 PLN (1536 PLN net). You do not need to convince anyone
that this is a meager income, and yet we are talking about the average. More and more
people do not even achieve the minimum pension (currently PLN 1,100 gross). In 2020, this
will apply to approx. 315 thousand people, several times more than five years ago. In
2025, this group is estimated at 500,000. people.

As a result, today, according to ZUS data, about 747 thousand retirees are working. In
turn, according to the Central Statistical Office, there are even more - over a million
(according to data from 2018 - without taking into account "black employment"). Every
fifth pensioner has to earn extra. This number is growing rapidly.

The liberal narrative - regarding the amount of pensions - focuses primarily on the
problem of retirement age (60 for women and 65 for men). The solution is to be simple -
you have to work longer to have higher pensions. It would mean getting everyone working to
work even up to 67 years of age, preferably breathless. Meanwhile, low pensions are the
result of the situation on the labor market over the past three decades: high unemployment
for most of this period, too low wages, junk contracts from which little or no
contributions were paid. As a consequence, pensions fall relatively the most for those
groups of employees who have been on the post-transformation labor market for the longest
time.

Viva seniors

Today retirees and pensioners are a huge "reserve army of labor", which at the same time
most often occupies a specific segment of the labor market. Suffice it to say that,
according to some data, only 40% of them work on the employment contract. It is not
possible for all groups to continue working in "their" profession - due to age and health
conditions (e.g. construction). Concierge is one of those positions, which - realistically
speaking - often does not require exceptional physical fitness. Security companies have
been using seniors for years, and it benefits - through outsourcing - not only the private
sector but, as it turns out, also the public sector. Local governments, state
institutions, universities, public media etc. save on outsourcing.

In the labor market segment, where the elderly operate, it is not easy to find a job. Low
salaries are the rule, "junk contracts" are commonplace, and violation of employee rights
is widespread. Meanwhile in Poznan - we read on the city's pages - the oldest residents
"can use the help of a beautician for free, who will take care of the nails at their feet.
The city self-government provided funds for this purpose. (...) Mobile toenail care is
another service available in the capital of Greater Poland as part of the Poznan Viva
Senior package. It can be used by Poznan residents who are over 80 and are in a difficult
life situation. " Instead of fighting against exploitation, local authorities offer
pedicures to seniors. And on condition that they live to misery up to eighty.

Jaroslaw Urbanski / Poznan Inter-Enterprise Commission

http://ozzip.pl/teksty/publicystyka/walki-pracownicze/item/2522-wyzysk-i-pedicure-osoby-w-wieku-60plus-na-poznanskim-rynku-pracy

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