RIVULIS Cancel the layoffs and stop attacks against the Unions The TUI (Trade Union International) of Pensioners of WFTU, we condemn the Israeli based Multinational Rivulis Irrigation Ltd for firing the President of the Workers Union of RIVULIS–EURODRIP in Greece, Giorgos Nikolaou, in an escalation of the company’s attack against workers’ rights and their right to union organization.

The Industry RIVULIS–EURODRIP fired the unionist in an attempt to block the union’s militant initiatives for Collective Contract with better wages and conditions for the workers and also to intimidate and frighten the workers in the factory.

The workers’ Union, with the solidarity and support from workers and unions of many  sectors immediately organized a series of protests and actions with a massive strike, with hundreds of workers on Monday, January 30.

Against this attack the Union and the workers plan new initiatives in the next days with great solidarity expressed from hundreds of unions from all sectors from all over Greece to block this attack against workers’ unions and cancel the layoffs

On behalf of our union, we express our solidarity with the workers in RIVULIS–EURODRIP in Greece and we support their just struggle!

In Solidarity, the TUI (Trade Union International) of Pensioners of WFTU