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On Sept. 23, activists from ZSP visited the main office of Plaza Centers in Warsaw concerning the situation of workers building the Torun Plaza shopping mall in Torun. The workers are not being paid on time or their full salary. We wrote about the working conditions here.

Despite the fact that our group was very calm and peaceful and when entering the office, we were met immediately by an extremely nervous and panicked person who didn't want to hear why we were there or take some information from us and immediately started calling the security. Such a frightened reaction to our friendly visit makes us suspect that they knew why we were there and that the workers in the office are, for some reason, in a panic. Whether it could be because of the string of people they owe money too is hard to guess.

We posted some leaflets on their doors and the corridor and decided to leaflet the workers coming to the building. But first we stopped at Ford headquarters, two floors below to deliver a protest related to the workers of Visteon Cadiz Electronica. Although it was already after 9:00, nobody was there to let us in. (Or they saw us coming and ran away.) So we left leaflets for them as well.

Workers at Plaza Centers were happy that there situation is getting more attention and that news about the protest in Warsaw was related in their local press. They are considering what to do next. Some people have stopped coming to work, but have not turned it into a public process. Activists from ZSP will meet with workers from that site now and try to encourage the ones who just gave up to take action instead.