STRIKE on 17th of April

The Private Sector Emploee Union of Chania invites workers to the strike demonstration organized by the worker’s unions, on Wednesday 17 April in the Chania Old Market square AT 10:00 am

The strike on 28 February was one of the largest in recent years. It united the struggle of workers, farmers, students and self-employed workers in a large nationwide front against government policies and corporate interests, and the EU. It expressed the overall indignation that exists in our households, but also the anger at the attempt to cover up the responsibilities of all the bourgeois parties, ND, SYRIZA, PASOK for the crime in Tempi.

The Nea Dimokratia government, taking advantage of laws signed by ministers Vroutsis and Ahtsioglou as part of Greece’s bailout agreements, announced for another year its unacceptable political decision to keep the minimum nominal gross wage fixed at 830 €, this way imposing on the majority of workers to live on 706 € net per month.

The average real gross wage of all workers was €1,038.23 in February 2023, when in the corresponding month of 2010 the average real gross wage of all workers was €1,417.84, a decrease of 26.77% (EFKA data). Notably, nothing will change in the lives of 67% of the workforce who are already paid a nominal gross wage equal to or above the new minimum wage (ERGANI data). These workers will not see any increase in their wages or any of their benefits.

It also keeps seniority bonus rights frozen for the vast majority of workers, stealing the seniority they worked in 2012- 2023. So a worker who entered production in 2012 will get their first three-years in 2027. Instead of the government giving him an increase of €249 today for the three three-year increments that were stolen from workers, which are now accrued over a twelve-year period, the new laws give workers an increase of €83 and even that in 2027!

At the same time 50% of the recruitments made in recent years are part-time or under other forms of flexible employment while at the same time with the miserable law of the ND’s minister Hatzidakis, employees work up to 10 hours a week unpaid overtime.

Through organisation and collective struggles, workers can show their strength!

We call for collective agreements NOW – Increases in wages – Abolish the law Vroutsis-Akhtsioglou

Colleagues,

At a time when inflation and the successive increases in food, energy and rents are literally crushing our income, with the salary lasting for 15 days at most, big business in all sectors -including food and supermarket companies- are increasing their profitability.

NO MORE WAITING – WE’RE STRIKING

In the face of the profits of the big corporations contributing to the economy’s “resilience” of the economy, we are confronting their profits with our needs by demanding measures against inflation, collective bargaining agreements and wage increases.

OUR NEEDS CAN NOT WAIT – AGAINST THE WAR THAT THE GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATE INTERESTS HAVE DECLARED AGAINST US, WE RESPOND IMMEDIATELY!

We fight for:

• Substantial wage increases. Repeal of the anti-labour laws and restoration of collective bargaining in the unions. Restoration of the favourability principle and per three-year seniority bonuses in contracts incorporating the period 2012 – 2023.
• Minimum wage of 900 euros.
• Unemployment benefit at 80% of the minimum wage for everyne unemployed.
• Fixed work with rights, 7 hours – 5 work days – 35 hours per week. No tolerance for inhumane working hours, flexible forms of employment and unpaid overtime.
• Abolition of indirect taxes and imposition of a cap on the prices of energy, food, baby and consumer goods.
• A tax-free threshold of €12,000 plus €3,000 for each child. Abolition of taxable presumptive minimum income.
• Abolition of ENFIA for worker and low income households.
• Health and safety measures in the workplace.
• Increased state funding to meet the needs of health, education, welfare and all critical sectors, such as civil protection. Take fire protection measures now!
• Stop auctions of family homes right now. Rent subsidies by broadening the inclusion criteria and increasing the subsidy
• No involvement of Greece in unjust wars.

Justice is on our side. We will win!

Union contact information

ΣΥΝΔΕΣΜΟΣ ΙΔΙΩΤΙΚΩΝ ΥΠΑΛΛΗΛΩΝ ΧΑΝΙΩΝ
(PRIVATE SECTOR EMPLOEE UNION OF CHANIA)
Markou Mpotsari 68, 73134, Chania

Member of the Federation of Private Sector Employees in Greece,

Member of the Chania Labour Unions Organization

( Email  : [email protected] )
Contact phone numbers: +30 698 200 1586 – +30 697 667 7919
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