(en) IWA External Bulletin #8* - ACTIONS AT TNS

IWA Sections also sent protests and organized a few pickets to support the campaign 
against TNS in cities such as Warsaw, Moscow and Oslo. TNS is a multinational market 
research and market information company, with offices in 19 countries in Asia and 37 
countries in Europe etc. ---- Over the past 2 years in Spain, TNS has been introducing 
worse and worse working conditions, making the work more precarious, eliminating bonuses, 
making people work 12 hour days (against the law) and making people work in really tight 
spaces. During an 8 hour day, the pollster receives two 5-minute breaks of break and one 
20 minute break ? the situation over 12 hours is even worse. ---- The CNT delegate had 
worked in TNS for 5 years before he was dismissed in November 2013. He had been protesting 
the worsening work conditions. The comrades at CNT see this as a union-busting action, to 
get rid of a worker who was organizing in the workplace and fighting for the workers' rights.

Over the last few months, the CNT has been protesting the dismissal by picketing not only 
TNS, but also its major clients such as Volkswagen.

* www.iwa-ait.org/sites/default/files/documents/iwa_external_bulletin_no.8_june_2014.pdf