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Thursday August 14, 2008 01:03 by Pantera
Stop unfair dismissal and discrimination! Today in Warsaw labour court was second part of case against Lionbridge company, which unfairly dismissed unionist Jakub G. in february this year. Firm claims that Jakub took and published the company's secrets on this portal in January short time after Jakub announced to them that the workers made a trade union in Polish office of that firm. |
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You can contact info@zsp.net.pl about solidarity .
I would just like to point out that we shouldn’t lose sight of the bigger issue here.
The company made a case against an individual and in the Poland office have given this a political overtone. As people focus on this as an individual case, this is a distraction from the larger issues.
Many Lionbridge workers in Europe follow what it going on and have heard the last two conference calls, read the transcripts or are reading the press. They know that “reducing currency risk” is corporate talk meaning that “costs”, which include themselves, got higher in Europe relative to the dollar and that the company plans to shut down, merge, restructure and downsize in Europe. The question then is, do they think that they can organize themselves to protect their interests as best they can, or do they accept the logic of the globalized market which demands lower and lower labour costs and are they willing to go in this direction?
Then the next question for them is what the obstacles are, which ways can corporations act towards workers, what methods to they use to discourage organization and how they can be avoided or prevented.
Ig any of the workers haven’t read this, they should:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/72700-lionbridge-techno...age=7
They should also listen to the latest conference call.
Of course most of the translation work in Lionbridge is done by freelancers who have fewer possibilities to organized. Now, one of the strategies the company has with offices that it wants to close is to introduce telework for some “highly-valued” employees. In the future this will mean that they also will have no daily physical contact with their co-workers. This can be viewed as some type of corporate spatial deconcentration. A much larger question is about the implications of a spatially deconcentrated workforce and how they may organize themselves so that work isn’t always a marketplace of individuals competing in a race to the bottom.
Will another round of solidarity demonstrations help?
Lionbridge company said that secret information was published on this web page in article about Lionbridge (Globalization of Low Wages). Company sent letter first with intention to dismiss Jakub but didn't say what secret information they mean. Lionbridge received answer saying where the information came from on the internet. All links to all information was given in the letter. This letter was attached as evidence in the case by Lionbridge but in the court they made testimony that they did not check this information, whether it was true or not, before they dismissed Jakub. This was more than 6 months ago. They had time to check this.
If they didn't check, they are awful firm which accuse the people falsely and don't check the proofs of what they accuse. For me it looks like they make the cleaning in the firm of anybody who can organize the workers and then later try to find any accusation. They probably know it's not true what they said.
What do you mean that Lionbridge didn't look at the proof? I got lost here. Could you clarify this?
Solidarity!