In April this year, we wrote that members of the MOSiR Employees’ Trade Union notified the District Council of OPZZ that the director Dariusz J. had intimidated his employees. They claimed that J. had surveilled them, subjected them to workplace bullying and threatened them with losing their jobs. All because of their trade-union membership (see our article: Bullying at MOSiR?)
OPZZ notified, among others, Bolesławiec Mayor Piotr Roman (the District Council called for J.’s immediate dismissal), the Lower Silesian Voivode, the National Labour Inspectorate in Wrocław and MP Ryszard Zbrzyzny about the entire matter. The association also filed a notification with the prosecutor’s office. “The statements prepared by employees—members of the trade union—show that they are being intimidated because of their trade-union membership and forced to resign from the union,” wrote Mirosław Habel, chair of the OPZZ District Council, in a letter to the prosecutor’s office.
In September, we reported that the District Prosecutor’s Office had discontinued the proceedings. “We found no grounds to charge Mr Dariusz J.,” Adam Zieliński, the district prosecutor, emphasized at the time.
The decision to discontinue the proceedings did not become final. “We conducted another analysis of the case files,” Adam Zieliński tells us today. “I concluded that the matter needed to be examined again.”
The prosecutor’s office charged the director with violating the Trade Union Act. J. will answer for discriminating against employees because of their trade-union membership. He faces a fine or restriction of liberty.
We were unable to contact Dariusz J.
In April, when the matter became widely known, only the IstotneInformacje.pl portal prepared an extensive report with the trade unionists and presented their arguments. Franciszek Walski, the trade unionists’ chair, appeared on our programme “Into the Light.”
Below, you can watch the entire programme.