Polish Syndicalists' Union

Polish Syndicalists' Union

The Polish Syndicalists Union is a Polish anarcho-syndicalist informal trade union , established at its founding congress on March 31–April 1, 2007 in Gliwice [ 1 ] . It is a member of the International Workers' Association [ 2 ] . The aim of ZSP is to transform the hierarchical society into an egalitarian and libertarian one [ 2 ] . Activity ZSP organizes, among others, a competition for the worst employer of the year [ 3 ] [ 4 ] . Furthermore, it also cooperates with organizations such as OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza (Workers ' Initiative) , the Anarchist Federation , and the Polish Socialist Party , for example, by organizing joint demonstrations – on Labor Day [ 5 ] [ 6 ] or the "Day of Social Anger" [ 7 ] [ 8 ] . It is also responsible for numerous cases of disclosure of violations of workers' rights by employers and related protests. “Bread Instead of Games” demonstration in Warsaw (June 8, 2012) In July 2008, the union protested in front of AmRest 's headquarters in connection with the company's introduction of Starbucks to Poland [ 9 ] . Since 2009, the Polish Union of Syndicalists has also been involved in the tenants' movement. Trade unionists from the ZSP participated in tenants' protests in the spring of 2009 [ 10 ] [ 11 ] and also organized protests – among others, in 2010 and 2016, in cooperation with organizations such as the Committee for the Defense of Tenants' Rights and the Warsaw Tenants' Association [ 12 ] [ 13 ] . On June 8, 2012, on the opening day of Euro 2012 , the ZSP, in cooperation with the Tenants' Defense Committee, organized a demonstration under the slogan "Bread Instead of Games", during which issues of housing problems and the allocation of public funds to the organization of the event at the expense of neglecting the needs of residents were raised [ 14 ] . In 2014, the ZSP publicized the case of former Amazon.com employees who had not received wages from a temporary employment agency that had mediated their employment at the company's distribution center in Sady near Poznań [ 15 ] . In August 2016, it held a protest at the former headquarters of the MarcPol store , which was in arrears with employee wages [ 16 ] . In January 2017, the union organized numerous protests by postmen at local Poczta Polska branches [ 17 ] , and in February [ 18 ] and June 2017 [ 19 ] , a series of pickets in front of the Polomarket chain of stores. Union members also publicize violations of workers' rights in Żabka stores [ 20 ] [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] . In March 2023, he publicized the case of an employee of the Mal-bud-1 company who had a serious accident, was not compensated by his employer for an accident at work, and was taken to a bus stop instead of to the hospital [ 24 ] . The union publishes the magazine "Zapłata" [ 25 ] and "Dignity of Work" [ 26 ] .

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