From October 10-16, 2022, the International Workers' Association is holding an
International Week of Actions against Unpaid Wages. ---- The ZSP-IWA will beholding two protest actions at Zabka convenience stores - one in Warsaw onOctober 9 and a week later, in Grodzisk Mazowiecki. ---- Zabka is a large chainof convenience stores; there are over 8000 Zabkas throughout Poland. It is ownedby Luxembourg-based CVC Capital Partners (a spinout from Citicorp) and operatesas a franchise which requires low capital investment (but with lots of stringsattached). Each shop is operated by the franchisee. ---- Unfortunately, in manyZabka shops throughout Poland, working without contracts, wage theft and illegalfines are the norm - not to mention denying workers the benefits they should beentitled to. Members of ZSP are constantly contacted by people who are cheated inZabka stores and we have already taken a number of successful direct actions.We have decided to try to do some sort of more systematic campaign at Zabka and afew workers wanted to make protests at the shops were they were cheated. We willdeliver a demand letter to the owners of these franchises and protest, all thetime trying to call more attention to these problems which are very common. Wewill demand that Zabka as a whole take more responsibility for ensursing legalworking conditions in their franchises.We are also working on another action as we are helping some Ukrainian workers ata thieving printing press. This is still under discussion and we think that thiswill not take place during the week of action, but later. The difficulty withthis situation, where the boss does not give contracts to all workers or givesthem trash contracts so as not to pay vacation days is that some of the workersnot only have no contracts but no work permits. We are still discussing how toavoid difficulties for the workers. It should be noted that Ukrainians who cameafter the war are able to work in Poland legally but there are many thousands whocame before who are still working without any type of permit, so there is a bigdiscrepancy here. At this printing press, some workers have failed to get theirsalaries in the last two months or received less than they should have. In themeanwhile, the boss is somewhere in Spain, either hiding, on a long vacation, orperhaps just happily spending the money he did not pay the workers. If we locatehim, we will ask comrades in that country to pay him a visit!STOP WAGE THEFT!ORGANIZE YOURSELVES AND FIGHT BACK!ZSP Warsawhttps://iwa-ait.org/content/zsp-iwa-and-international-week-actions-against-unpaid-wages_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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