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A lawyer representing Impuls has written to the Anarchist Information Center portal, threatening to sue it for an article on Impuls, which described the problems of the workers with getting paid, sometimes for many months.

Activists from ZSP are in contact with workers who haven't been paid by Impuls for months. Some of them already filed suit in court. But it is just the tip of the iceberg.

The lawyer for Impuls threatens to sue for 60,000 zloties (15,000 euros) but also write that in the case of losing contracts, Impuls will sue the owner of the internet domain for an additional 100,000 zloties (25,000 euros) for losses. The lawyer also claims that jobs can be lost because of informing about the late payments of Impuls. In other words, they are insinuating that, the bigger problem for workers is not that their boss pays them 3 or 4 months late and that they have no money and debts during that time, but that if anybody finds out about it, the bosses can have trouble.

Even more „interesting” than that are the lawyer's description of pickets at the Impuls office. During the first picket, workers locked the doors of the company in fear and during the third picket, a boss from the company hit a comrade in the face while he was talking through the megaphone, leaving him a little bloodied up. The lawyer however writes that at the demonstrations at Impuls somebody "committed a crime described in article 189 § 1 of the Criminal Code, illegal imprisonment of my Client”.

As the lawyer writes further "I inform you that during each demonstration the police will be called because there is reason to fear the injury to the health or loss of life of the workers of Impuls”.

Readers of course can judge this for themselves, as can people from that area who saw the pickets and who will be informed of the interesting claims of that company. During every picket we met local people who recalled the workers standing in huge lines for their salaries and going away with nothing.

In the meanwhile, Impuls employs a few hundred people and workers have not received pay for months. As this is a job employing people on trash contracts for low pay, they are not in a position to survive without their salaries. Some of the workers are in debt and in very bad situations because of these delays. Although it seems that the authorites in Poland do nothing to go after deadbeat bosses who pay workers late (or not at all), everything is done to speed up the execution of debts. Working class people who fall behind with the rent are in real danger of eviction or having their property seized. More and more people are finding themselves in serious financial trouble because of non-payments at work. This is recognized as a massive problem in the country, but nothing is done to help workers in this situation.
Despite the legal threats and accusations that protestors committed some crimes during the pickets, the ZSP has said that it will continue to protest the working conditions and non-payments at Impuls and will advise workers about their possible courses of action. Nobody will be intimidated by such outrageous behaviour on the part of this company and accusations that have no basis.