The phony-macho stand of the Greek government and the fairy tales about “red lines” are coming to an end. The joint statement of Tsipras-Junker on labour and Social Security are a forerunner of a new agreement-”butcher” for the people, of a new MEMORANDUM!
The masks are falling! No one should be deceived by the dilemmas, the supposed “dead ends”. The deception and the blackmails are continuing, from the point the where the previous government had stopped.
We must not give them more time! Waiting means the people losing time, which is used by the government and the capitalists. We are lead to greater poverty and misery, for the salvation of our exploiters’ profits, for the lenders to be paid.
The torture for the workers will continue with new, brutal measures, which lower the peoples’ income and will lead sectoral wages into leveling. With new measures on Pension System, on Social Security, in Taxation. Those are the demands of the European Union-IMF and the capitalists, and in this debate also entered the Greek Government. That is the bargaining on extending the butchering of the rights we have left, on stealing even more the results of our work!
Whether the new “memorandum” is called “agreement” or vise versa, is of no importance when all the laws that destroyed the labor relations, the collective contracts, the social security and pension rights, they remain untouched, are still in place and continue to destroy our lives.
Stabilizing poverty is not an “honest compromise”!
There is no “honest compromise” with the workers in wretchedness, when pauperization has broken all barriers. Honest and just is the struggle that today demands the total abolishment of the antiworkers legislative arsenal, which the government preserves and enhances, so as to use the employers can use it freely in every sector.
The “honest compromise” is a demand of the multinational groups. The agreement that is being prepared, includes measures that make the wealthy smile, because they will continue to harvest the wealth at the expense of the great majority of the people, who will continue to suffer.
Our lives cannot bear any more measures. Our needs cannot wait! Right here and right now, against the terrorisation and the blackmails to demand:
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Increases in wages, pensions, and benefits. Immediate reinstatement of the minimum wage at 751€
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Cover all losses
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Reinstatement of the Collective Contracts
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Abolishment of the anti workers legislation
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Real protection of all the unemployed
The facts are implacable! Since 2012 the sectoral collective contracts lost any real power, as the big employers ran over them. In 1400 industrial collective contracts signed, there were wage cuts of 10 to 40%. The contracts signed through the so called Individuals’ Associations, resulted in even greater butchering of the wages.
We must not give away our hard work!
No more tolerance to poverty, misery and insecurity, to favor the lenders and the privileges of the capitalists. The losses we suffered all these years, the lost wages, the lost rights, became privileges and profits for the employers. The last years’ wage cuts, which were imposed through antiworkers legislation, the governments gifted to the employers €14 billions. We are not allowed to giveaway our wage raise! We cannot accept the miserable conditions of flexible working relations, which dominates and leads to €200 salaries. The crumbs given through the provocative “employment programs”, continue with no changes under the new government, also.
Give no space for compromise, defeatism, disappointment!
It is now obvious where all these will lead to. The invocation of referendums is not a sign of democratic values, but is used as a trick, which will make the new agreements accepted by the people, using blackmails and threats. The same way, the social dialogues organised by the government aim to manipulate the workers. They want the new butchering to be signed by its victims, to be accepted by the workers. They want us to sign our own death penalty!
Now is the time to give a fighting response!
No more backing down! With our power and our struggles we can reverse the situation. That is the weapon we have left and we must use! With strong trade unions, with a movement that will strike directly the interests of the capitalists, free of the employers’ and governmental trade unionism, with steady front against the EU-IMF and each anti-people government. To strengthen the struggle in every work place and sector.
Now is the time to make our voice heard loud and militant!
Unified the workers in every sector and work place, to stop the new plans. All together to take matters in our hands, with no exceptions in our demands. This struggle is for our lives and the lives of our children.
Immediate Action! Rise Up Now!
We call the trade unions to organise the struggle with discussions, meetings sector by sector, factory by factory! Immediately to decide their participation and realization of fighting demonstrations on June 11, in every city. Against the new “memorandums”, the new antipeoples’ agreements. So as not to have any new measures and cancel all the antiworkers’ laws.
PREPARATION FOR GENERAL STRIKE!
The hope is in the struggles, the organisation, the slogans of real rupture and change. We can live without memorandums, without poverty and unemployement. With the fighting forces of the selfemployed (PASEVE), small farmers(PASY), the youth (MAS) and the women (OGE), the workers to be the vanguard, in the daily struggle, in the path of uncompromising struggle for new demands, to regain the losses, to demand all the wealth we produce.
May 2015
