Tesco organisers in Poland will be trained by USDAW

USDAW will train Tesco organisers:
Poland's Solidarnosc steps up its unionisation campaign

Marlena Pawlowska, left, handles the project contacts with Uni Commerce. Mariusz Skrzypek and Paula Brzezinska are responsible for organising in Metro, Tesco and other multinational retailers. The results so far are very encouraging.

With almost 100,000 members in Tesco, British commerce trade union USDAW is working with Uni Commerce to organise the company's workers in Central and Eastern Europe. Even more than so, the project aims at building a new trade union concept in Tesco in these countries, adapted to a constructive and efficient social dialogue.

In Poland, where the project supports a full time organiser since a few months back, results are beginning to show. The recently concluded social partnership agreement between Tesco Polska and Solidarnosc has created a framework for an intensified unionisation and organisation development campaign.

As part of the launch of this campaign, USDAW will train two Solidarnosc organisers in the United Kingdom in September. The training will be planned together with Uni Commerce and implemented with the help of the British Trades Union Congress TUC.