The Dino chain has one of the lowest salaries among supermarket chains in Poland and, among others, This is why it owes its high profits and rapid development. Year after year, it catches up with Biedronka in the number of stores. Low wages are caused by, among others, location of stores in smaller towns, where the employee cannot choose among the offers. However, the employees, or rather mainly the company's female employees, decided to change this through trade unions.
February 10 at At 10 a.m. there was to be a meeting of representatives of the National OPZZ Confederation of Labor with the Dino management board. Before noon, an entry appeared on the OPZZ Facebook profile that the meeting had been moved to 12.00 and that no one from the Dino management board will be at the meeting.
“Instead of dialogue – escalation of the conflict? Instead of conversation, the Dino company chooses confrontation. This is not how the talks between the social side and the company should look like. We were prepared for a meeting with the management. We came with specific employee problems. On the other side of the table? The occupational health and safety manager and four lawyers,” write the outraged trade unionists.
The trade unionists write that these are lawyers from the PCS Littler law firm, who are “known for filing lawsuits against trade unionists in Kaufland, Jeremias, and Janpol.”
“It's a pity, because there was a real chance of reaching an agreement on several key issues. Unfortunately, the company's representatives did not answer questions – most likely they had no knowledge of the topics discussed,” said trade unionists.
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The network paid for the entire conflict with a decline in stock market prices. Shares are down 1.8% on Tuesday and more than 6% since the beginning of the year. despite the stock market rising at that time.
“Protests and strikes on the horizon”
“We have mediations ahead of us. If nothing changes, protests and strikes appear on the horizon“- they warn.
They report that working and pay conditions are getting worse. “People are tired – they often work for three people. We do not demand miracles. We want decent working conditions and fair pay raises,” they appeal.
The issues that were to be discussed during Tuesday's meeting included: violations of the provisions of the Act on the resolution of collective disputes by Dino, salary increases for employees, the Company Social Benefits Fund, low staffing in supermarkets and warehouses, deduction of funds from employee bonuses for the repair of equipment, ban on holidays in the summer season, pressure on work efficiency and violations of legal regulations regarding temperature.
As the National Labor Inspectorate informed “Rzeczpospolita”, in some facilities the measurements carried out during the inspection actually confirmed too low temperatures. In one of the stores in Skierniewice it was 3.2 degrees Celsius at the checkout counter. In total, PIP has carried out over 140 inspections in Dino stores since the beginning of January.
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Dino, next to Żabka, is the fastest growing retail chain in Poland, which is possible thanks to the increase in profits. The company opened 345 new stores in 2025 and at the end of 2025 had 3,033 of them, quickly catching up with Biedronka.
During the nine months of 2025, Dino generated PLN 25 billion in revenue, which was 14.9% higher than last year. higher year on year. EBITDA increased by 14.6%. to PLN 1.93 billion, and the net profit amounted to PLN 1.19 billion compared to PLN 1.08 billion a year earlier.
In 2024, Business Insider estimated average earnings of almost PLN 50,000. Dino's employees amounted to less than 5,000. PLN gross per month with a minimum wage of PLN 4.3 thousand. zloty. Stokrotka paid employees similar, slightly more money, Auchan paid an average of PLN 400 more, Biedronka paid PLN 800 more, and Lidl paid PLN 1.5 thousand more. PLN more. With the reservation that Dino has so far located its stores outside large cities, where wages are lower because there is little opportunity to choose another employer, and the store's turnover is lower.
