To

•  Birlesik Metal-Is
• Embassy of Turkey in Greece
• Metal Industrialists’ Union (Metal Sanayicileri Sendikasý)

Solidarity with the Strike of the Metalworkers of Turkey

 PAME (All Workers Militant Front), representing the class oriented trade union movement of Greece, the Trade Union of Metalworkers of Attica and the Trade Union of Metalworkers of Attica Larissa express our support to the just struggle of the Turkish metalworkers of Birlesik Metal-Is, who demand to sign collective agreements with better wages.

On Thursday, January 29 was launched in Turkey a mass strike of 15,000 metalworkers in 22 factories, 10 Turkish cities demanding the signing of collective agreements with wage increases at sectoral level, reducing the wide gap in pay between different job categories and seniority levels and keeping the length of the agreement at two years instead of three. The strike has met the attack of the employers, who tried to block the strike both utilizing the anti-strike legislation, and trying to set up scabs mechanism.

In an industry where the working class count daily victims and crippled laborers and capitalists count every day huge profits, the struggle of the Turkish metalworkers for Collective Agreements with better wages is fair. The efforts of employers to block your strike citing “national security” shows that for employers “national security” is the security of their profits, whereas for the safety of the Turkish metalworkers speak the hundreds of the dead from Soma and all other industries-open graves of the workers, of our brothers.

PAME

The Trade Union of Metalworkers of Attica

The Trade Union of Metalworkers of Attica Larissa

Support the struggle of the Turkish metalworkers and submit this memorandum to the Turkish Embassy in Athens demanding the implementation of the metalworkers demands and the Turkish Government taking no action against the strike.

Athens, 30.1.15

PAME (All Workers Militant Front)

The Trade Union of Metalworkers of Attica

The Trade Union of Metalworkers of Attica Larissa

PAME (All Workers Militant Front) that represents the class trade union movement of Greece, we express our repudiation of the dismissals of the subway workers of São Paulo, due to the strike held in June 2014.

We are especially outraged because when the Judge Thiago Melosi Soria granted an injunction for the reinstatement that the Cia. do Metropolitano de São Paolo – Metrô failed to provide any hard evidence for their dismissal. Now, based on an arbitrary decision of an appeals judge, without any legal basis and based on a phoney security mandate the workers have been dismissed again. We condemn this act which disrespects the organization and struggle of the workers. We demand that the Brazilian authorities to stop attacking the right to strike and the free expression of workers in defence of their rights as well as the immediate reinstatement of workers dismissed by Cia. do Metropolitano de São Paulo – Metrô.