The Unions of Hotel-Tourism-Catering in Greece are preparing for Nationwide Strike all over Greece on July 20.

 We call all unions to express their solidarity and support to this important and diffcult strike of the the Hotel and Tourism workers.

The Unions’ call to the strike follows:

 Workers in tourism, hotels andcateringindustryinGreece

Cooks, waiters, maids, cleaning personnel, salesmen, receptionists, travel agents, and all other employees to hotels, catering companies, restaurants, etc

Wecannotstandanymorethestarvation wages, with no collective agreements. Working non-stop overtime shifts, without insurance and social security and sometimes even without getting paid for months.

Dozens of trade unions of tourism, hotels & catering industry from all over Greece, are calling you to join and protest with us:

ENOUGH!! ON JULY 20^TH WE GO ON STRIKE

• The “fairytale” oftheSYRIZA Governmentandtheemployers that all workers in tourism benefit from the growth of Tourism in Greece does not convince anyone of us who suffer from their policies.

• They lie when they claim that we are working, that we are well-paid employees and we work under descent working conditions.

The reason is that the workers in tourism & catering industry in Greece, not only suffer from unemployment, but also are part-time workers, poorly paid- if not unpaid- and our health is brutally abused to their modern 5star hotels!!!

Even worse, we live the exploitation daily to the chain catering companies, where we get hired & fired in a blink of an eye, when workers cannot work under extreme pressure.

Wewillnotremainsilent!

Hundreds of us work only on seasonal jobs. Many work only 3 days per week.

At the same time, other colleagues have to work non stop for more than 10hours per day as “outsourced workers” through outsourcing “slave-trade”companies.

Young people that now work first time in tourism sector, full of dreams, end up sleeping in containers during the tourist season, working for free in order to “get experienced”.

And if by chance they are paid something, that is not enough, not even for their transportation from/to the working place. On the same time, the situation for the employees with contracts is not much better.

Nowadays Greece faces a unique growth, with an income exceeding every year €15 billion coming from our job while most of us do not have the necessary to survive. While welcoming 30million tourists every year in a country with more than 10.000 hotels and hundreds of restaurants, café, bars, very few of us have ourselves the “luxury” to go on holiday with their families.

This is the tourism they want to impose, a tourism that destroys & vanishes every single small working place and businessman who tries to compete the big business group of companies. This is the development they want to bring everywhere. And this is the truth.

WE CANNOT STAND THIS ANYMORE.

• We must take over.

• We must raise our voice.

• Wemuststrengthen our resistance and our demands along with the trade unions that care about the workers and their rights.

ORGANIZE OUR FIGHT:

• Through a massive participation to the strike, in order to impose to the employers to accept collective agreements, all around the country

• By demanding to live and work in a descent way, with a salary enough to cover our needs

• By demanding the abolition of any new way , which the employers find, every now and then, in order to impose cuts to our salaries

• By gaining, through our fight, protection & insurance measures for the unemployed colleagues and their families, during the entire duration of the unemployment

• By demanding the abolition of the outsourcing companies that act as modern “slave traders”, in order all of us to have job with rights.

• By fighting for human working conditions, health and safety in the working places

WeshalltakeinitiativesinordertoinformallourcolleaguesaroundGreeceforthedemands we have and expose the employers and the extreme exploitation we’ ve been through We shall become better on revealing what is their “growth”, which steps on us and our lives for their profit. We must demand our growth, which will bring a life with dignity and rights for us and our families, for everyone. We must fight for our lives, in order to be able to go on holidays, enjoy cultural activities and recreate ourselves, not by buying all these as a luxury, but as a common right being deprived by the majority of the people today

With The Class Trade Unions On The Front Line

We Fight For Our Needs.

July 20 National Strike In Tourism

We call all unions to express their solidarity and support to this important and diffcult strike of the the Hotel and Tourism workers.