In several companies, the anti-union strategy is developing under different forms : employees' intimidation, discriminations against those who try to unionize in the private sector, dismissal of union militants, and so on. Employers would thus try to hold back pay raises which, for two years, had reached between 7 and 15% under the effect of union claims. (Ref. 070299)
Last March, the Tychy Fiat factory (3,700 employees out of the 9,000 people Fiat employs in Poland), executives individually hailed at Solidarity members, to give them an application inciting them to leave this union and stop paying their contributions. “We suggested that Solidarity is no longer an upwind union and that as a consequence they have to find another, preferably in cooperation with the employer”, explained Wanda Strozyk, chair of Fiat Solidarity. And she added: “it is an attempt to
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