”Workers in Greece should not be paying for the crisis”: with this slogan Greek unions are preparing to celebrate May 1st with two large demonstrations. On one side there are the country’s two large unions: Adedy (for civil servants and employees of state-controlled enterprises) and Gsee (workers in the private sector), which have organised a large rally on Sunday morning at 11:00 a.m., at Platia Clathmonos, a large central square in Athens.
Additionally there is Pame, the union that is close to the Greek communist party, which organises its traditional gathering at 10:00 a.m. on another square in the Greek capital, Platia Omonoias. On May 11th there will be a 24-hour strike in the public and private sector. Gsee and the Labour Office in Athens stated: ”The government adopts a harsh, unjust and anti-social policy, selling off public companies and giving in to the blackmail by the markets, the Troika, the Europeans and the monetarists. The workers of our country must fight against this blackmail” to resolve the crisis.
The unions are demonstrating to ask for the end of flexible labour (which, in their eyes, lowers wages), for the protection of collective agreements, for a compensation of wage losses suffered by the workers in the past years and for the end of the changes to the welfare system.
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