The initiatives of PAME, for its Campaign against Unemployment is welcomed by many Trade Union organisations around the world, who express their solidarity with PAME, as well as their condemnation of the criminalization of trade union activity in Greece.
Solidarity messages to PAME and the National Rally of November 1st were sent by:
Vietnam General Confederation of Labour-VGCL
“We follow with great concern the struggle being waged by workers, trade unions and people in Greece for job protection and against the unemployment. We strong believe that job security, decent life and income, are basic, legitimate, legal rights and demands of workers. The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour would like to express its strong solidarity and support to your struggle and wish you every success.”
Konfederasi KASBI from Indonesia
“Konfederasi KASBI from Indonesia express our solidarity for comrades in PAME and all workers in Greece who will have a national-wide rally against unemployment on 1 November 2014 supported by more 700 trade unions, federations, regional trade union centers, students, women, farmers and self-employed associations. We strongly believe this national-wide rally will be glorious moment in the history of Greece and the world. We believe the braveness and militant movement of Greece workers against capitalism and neoliberalism will inspiring workers all around the world. The initiatives of PAME to escalate the struggle against the new anti labor plans and the ignorance of the bourgeois media by announce General Strike on the end of November shows that working class in Greece have strong commitment to end the exploitation of people by capitalist. This strong commitment and unity of action will lead Greece working class to victory against capitalism and imperialism.”
National federation of syndicates of workers in Lebanon – Fenasol
“The National federation of syndicates of workers in Lebanon – Fenasol expresses its stand by your side and support in the struggling choice that you have took. We also announce that we are on the side of all workers, students, women, farmers, and next to all the struggling working classes in Greece against the savage financial crisis and we support all of your demands that we consider legal, we also accuse and regret all the attacks on syndical freedoms especially against all the union structures in Greece.
On the behalf of all Lebanese workers and our struggling working classes we inform you that we are on your side and that we support all of your acts in your current freedom fight.
We are working on media coverage to all your activities and moves by the Lebanese media and on social media that belongs to our federation also those that are allies to us in order to make sure that we can publish all of your news, also we look forward to hear that your manifestations are succeeding to raise up the voice to achieve all of your struggling goals.”
UITBB (BUILDING TUI)
“The UITBB Secretariat on behalf of millions of construction and wood workers on all continents conveys militant class based greetings to PAME and its members and salutes their decision to stage a nationwide campaign with marches and meetings to denounce mass unemployment and to demand jobs with rights, protection for the unemployed and income for every citizen allowing to live in dignified conditions.
Unemployment is one of the strongest weapons used by capital and big business against the working class, dividing workers, generating xenophobia and racism, trying to demoralize and demobilize the working people. All over Europe, because of the austerity politics imposed by TROIKA, our industrial branches – construction and building materials industries – are particularly affected resulting in millions of our fellow workers, women and men, being out of job.
Our Secretariat expresses full solidarity to PAME and its initiative, which will lead up to the organization of a general strike at the end of November.
More than ever, workers and their unions need to demonstrate class based internationalist solidarity, and in this spirit the UITBB secretariat calls on all UITBB affiliates and supporter unions to express through various means their solidarity with the Greek workers and their militant organization PAME.”
The International Union of Public Unions and Similar Services (TUI-PS-S)
“The International Union of Public Unions and Similar Services (TUI-PS-S), the Federation World
Trade Unions (WFTU) welcomes and provides solidarity with the struggle of PAME,
unemployment and quality employment. We saw pay our solidarity to the rally to take place on November 1 next. We are sure that only positive results will fight to the Greek working class. We believe that should be a requirement, especially the European trade union movement, the end the process of criminalization of political militancy of union leaders, as is happening our comrades Akis Antonious, George Vassilakis and Petro Poundidis, whose only “crime” of that can be charged is to fight and organize the workers’
struggle for their rights. As you are aware, on the 3rd of October, International Day of Fight WFTU under the theme “Combating Unemployment and the Struggle for Decent Work”, was held in Portugal one Conference organized by the National Federation of Labor Unions in Functions Public and Social
and the WFTU on this theme involving the entire organization World, including the PAME, where
it was considered that:
“In a situation where more than 200 million workers are unemployed throughout the world; where
inequalities in income distribution and poverty are compounded in that we rich are getting richer;
where large blocks capitalists advancing militarism and promote aggression, interference and wars,
threatening world peace; in which governments service of big capital advocate enormous social
and civilizational setbacks, the role of the Movement Union of class and mass, committed to the
interests of the workers and peoples, able to organize their resistance and to intervene with just
demands and alternative proposals to the model of capitalist exploitation is increasingly crucial. “
(doc. finals of the Conference)
Therefore, there is only one way for the workers and for people from all over the World – Fight!”
