ΠΑΝΕΡΓΑΤΙΚΟ ΑΓΩΝΙΣΤΙΚΟ ΜΕΤΩΠΟΗ επίσημη ιστοσελίδα του Πανεργατικού Αγωνιστικού Μετώπου

Recently took place the congress of UNI ICTS, which is member of the ITUC and ETUC.

To understand the character of the congress we can just see the main speakers. Those where Swedish State Secretary to the Minister for Employment, Virginia Doellgast, Associate Professor of Comparative Employment Relations at the London School of Economic (the notorious school of Multinationals’ Executives and Governments’ Officials), in addition to the executive of the multinational ERICSSON (the same multinational that laid off thousands of workers worldwide in 2015)

On the other hand, we also have a clear example of employers’ trade unionism attempts to present black as white, so as to hide their role as representatives of the employers’ interests. The Federation of Workers in Greek Telecommunications (OME-OTE), subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, shamelessly presented the collective contract that the Federation signed as an achievement in favour of the workers. But this Collective Contract imposes

• Wage cuts of 11% to all workers of Greek Telecommunications (OTE)

• It separates the workers to old and new and cuts the new-hired workers’ wages by 40%

• It accepts officially the outsourcing practices of the company, the slave trade companies that use flexible working relations, 4hour workdays and monthly contracts

Characteristic of the hypocrisy and the role of the Federation OME-OTE is that for the outsourced workers in the subsidiaries of Greek Telecommunications, the Federation refused them

• The right to participate in the federation

• The right to join its unions and participate in their elections

• It even ignored their request to form Health and Safety Committees

 Those are the supporters of UNI. Employers’ trade unionists and executives of multinationals!

Memorandum of demands to the embassy of the Federal Republic of  Germany in support of PAME and working families of Greece, against austerity and Anti-workers measures memorandum

Submitted by the world federation of trade unions (WFTU) in South Africa, Tshwane on the 13 August 2015

The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) in South Africa, joins workers of PAME on Greece, to demand an end to the 3rd Memorandum, which can only bring increased misery for the working people of Greece, upon whose shoulders the entire the entire burden and responsibility for the crisis of the capitalist system has been thrust.

 The measures by the fatcats in Syriza and ANEL austerity alliance, provides no exit to the Greek crisis.

 They will reduce the living conditions and incomes of the people even further.

These measures will provoke a new round of dismissals, in line with the plans by the Troika.

They will expand unpaid labour, enforce leave and other anti-worker measures.

This is early Christmas for the big European capitalist financiers and bankers, who will rake in more profits from austerity.

 The new memoranda imposes a massive burden through a new loan worth 86 billion euros, tied towards criminal structural adjustment.

 People will be taxed more, value added taxation of consumer basics steeply increased, with further cuts on pensions, more privatisation will be carried out and unadulterated banking transactional limits.

 The new memorandum of the EU-ECB-IMF, constitutes a new offensive and the consolidation of a serious onslaught of the previous memoranda.

 In this regard, we fully support PAME and working families and the massive demonstrations in every street, every workplace of Greece and adhere to the solidarity of millions across the world in calling for an end to the new anti-workers measures memorandum

 The Federal republic of Germany is the leading shopsteward of the troika, the chief administrator of this catastrophic attack on Greek workers and the number 1 supporter of false conclusions. It is in bed with the capitalist Troika and their wishes to imprison more and more working people in Greece and across Europe and subordinate them to feudal standards of living.

 We are also in support against using these barbaric measures to siphon away the sovereign right of the Greek people to present real political solutions based on new social ownership function, disengagement from the EU and NATO and the unilateral cancellation of the debt and the groundswell rejection of false criteria, which is the capitalist development of Greece.

 As part of the class oriented trade union movement, We act in solidarity to demand the unconditional cancellation of the anti-workers measures memorandum

 AWAY WITH THE NEW ANTI-WORKERS MEASURES MEMORANDUM AWAY

 GERMANY IS NO EUROPE

AWAY WITH THE GERMAN SEIZURE OF POWER IN EUROPE AWAY

 ​WFTU South Africa​