International Conference of Trade Unions of Telecommunications, IT and Call Centers
October 19, 2015, Brussels
“Workers in Telecommunications, IT and Call Centers against the Multinationals”
We Will Not Become Slaves of the 21st Century
The Trade Union organisations of PAME-Greece, CoBas-Spain, USB-Italy and PEO-Cyprus take the responsibility to call a Conference of the Trade Unions of Telecommunications, IT and Call Centres sector in Brussels, in October 5, 2015, on the subject:
“The struggle of the workers in Telecommunications,
IT and Call Centres Against the multinationals”
For our daily action in a sector, where the multinational companies are dominant, it is necessary for the workers to be in direct communication with each other from country to country, to get informed about the developments and the plans of the employers, to develop common action and give a unified answer. The updating, the exchange of information and experience should lead to the expression of solidarity with the struggles developed in the sector in every country, in support of the organizations that fight for Collective Contracts, in order to improve the salaries and the rights. Our task is to close ranks of the solidarity and to support and protect workers and trade unionists from the attacks and persecution of employers and governments, as is the recent example with the struggle of the contract and sub-contract workers of TELEFONICA in Spain. In this direction we call for a conference of the militant forces of the sector in Europe, which will specify such matters, expand the experience, support and coordinate organizations which fight against the common enemy, in each country.
For a movement that will fight against the multinationals, the European Union and their political representatives. A movement that has as its priority the realization of the contemporary needs of the working class must build strong and rooted unions with militant features in every workplace. Today we need trade unions that will unite the workers based on the sector they work, against the divisions caused by the employers. This movement will bear the responsibility to organise the workers and increase the struggles against the multinationals and the monopolies, so as to defend and expand the rights of the workers, to demand collective contracts.
“Workers in Telecommunications, IT and Call Centers against the Multinationals”
We Will Not Become Slaves of the 21st Century
