5th week of strike at the Jeremias factory in Poland has begun. Call for international solidarity!

Dział: English news
wtorek, 01 lipiec 2025

The Workers' Initiative (IP – Inicjatywa Pracownicza) section at the Jeremias chimney systems factory in Gniezno (Poland) has been on strike since the 3th of June. The workers’ demands are: 800 PLN (around 200 EUR) wage increase, extension of the break to 30 minutes, reduction of the pay period to…

Czytaj dalej...

SUPPORT THE STRIKE IN THE BIGGEST METAL PACKAGING MANUFACTURER IN POLAND!

Dział: English news
sobota, 22 czerwiec 2024

On Thursday June 20th, we started a strike at CanPack Food and Industrial Packaging, the biggest manufacturer of metal packaging in Poland. We ask you to support our strike fund. Our union organized the first strike in the history of CANPACK FIP corporation in Poland. It is the result of a collective…

Czytaj dalej...

Strike referendum at Amazon Poland – summary

Dział: English news
sobota, 06 maj 2023

The union Inicjatywa Pracownicza (IP), which represents more than 1,000 people employed by Amazon in Poland, entered into a formal labour dispute in July 2022. The union demanded a wage increase of 6 PLN per working hour. An earlier petition signed by 2,777 people did not lead to the expected…

Czytaj dalej...

[ENG] What changes when a trade union organization is established at a workplace?

Dział: English news
poniedziałek, 16 maj 2022

What changes when a trade union organization is established at a workplace? You can find the answer to this question in the attached leaflet, which describes the most important rights of company and inter-company committees of Workers' Initiative.

Czytaj dalej...

[ENG] Trade Union at Your Workplace. Don't Wait - Get Organized!

Dział: English news
poniedziałek, 16 maj 2022

Why do workers need unions? Why should you unionize? What can the union change in your workplace? What can the union do for you? When is the union effective? How does the Workers' Initiative work? How can I join the Workers' Inititative? - The answers to these questions can be…

Czytaj dalej...

Contre la guerre - Pour la solidarité internationale des travailleurs!

Dział: English news
piątek, 25 luty 2022

Déclaration du Comité national de l'OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza (Syndicat d'initiative des travailleurs) sur l'agression russe contre l'Ukraine, 24 février 2022.

Czytaj dalej...

Against war – for international workers’ solidarity!

Dział: English news
piątek, 25 luty 2022

A statement by the OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza (Workers’ Initiative Union) National Committee on the Russian aggression against Ukraine, 24 February 2022.

Czytaj dalej...

Support the Workers’ Initiative!

Dział: English news
czwartek, 02 grudzień 2021

Reacting to the conflicts at workplaces (which often erupt unexpectedly) and to support those on strike, requires money. They are needed for: preparing and distributing information materials, travel costs or hiring the lawyers. We do not receive any subsidies from the state or the employers and we want to be…

Czytaj dalej...

Amazon fires a protected Inicjatywa Pracownicza shop steward. Make Amazon pay for it!

Dział: English news
poniedziałek, 15 listopad 2021

On November 9, 2021 Amazon Poland gave a dismissal notice to Magda Malinowska, who has worked for 6 years at its warehouse in Sady near Poznan. Magda is a protected union representative and member of the Inicjatywa Pracownicza union, as well as an elected healthy and safety inspector. She is…

Czytaj dalej...

Migrant care workers fight for their rights

Dział: English news
wtorek, 09 listopad 2021

The Workers' Initiative (Inicjatywa Pracownicza) was joined by the Domestic Workers' Commisttee, Poland's first union structure for domestic workers, made up entirely of Ukrainian migrant women. It is Ukrainian women who come to Poland most often to work as child, elderly or disabled people caregivers.

Czytaj dalej...

Amazon: Inside the Belly of the Beast

Dział: English news
czwartek, 01 kwiecień 2021

Za: http://www.arsenal.art.pl/wystawy/amzn/

December 2020: the three-hour-long blockade of Amazon’s gate near Wrocław causes serious delays – tens of trucks don’t leave on time. November 2020: a hundred forklift drivers gather in one section of the warehouse. They protest using horns and chant: “2,000 PLN for everyone!”. March 2020: thousands of Amazon workers…

Czytaj dalej...

Workers from Africa without salaries and accomodation in Śmigiel (near Poznań)

Dział: English news
piątek, 26 marzec 2021

On 11 March we received information about a temporary work agency attempting to evict 30 African migrant workers employed at the Spa Food factory in the town of Śmigiel near Poznań. After a joint intervention by IP (Inicjatywa Pracownicza – the Workers’ Initiative), Wielkopolska Tenants Association (Wielkopolskie Stowarzyszenie Lokatorów) and…

Czytaj dalej...

"2,000 pln for everyone" - Polish Amazon workers demand bonus

Dział: English news
sobota, 21 listopad 2020

On 5 November 2020, Amazon workers from the warehouse located near Wroclaw, Poland (Amazon WRO1) stopped working and demanded "2,000 pln for everyone". In the following days workers from other Polish sites have joined the protest and declare to continue during the upcoming Black Friday.

Czytaj dalej...

„2.000 Złoty für alle“ - Polnische Amazon-Arbeiter*innen fordern Bonuszahlung

Dział: English news
sobota, 21 listopad 2020

Am 5. November 2020 legten Amazon-Arbeiter*innen aus dem Lager in der Nähe von Wroclaw, Polen (WRO1) die Arbeit nieder und forderten „2.000 Złoty für alle“. In den folgenden Tagen schlossen sich Arbeiter*innen aus anderen polnischen Standorten dem Protest an und erklärten, dass sie während des bevorstehenden Black Friday weitermachen wollen.

Czytaj dalej...

Poland’s feminist uprising

Dział: English news
środa, 18 listopad 2020

Poland has been gripped in recent weeks by a massive strike movement led by women in response to an attempted constitutional ban on abortion. rs21 spoke with several feminist activists in Polish union Inicjatywa Pracownicza about the movement.

Czytaj dalej...