PAME calls Action Day for Public Transport September 10

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PAME Transport Secretariat calls the Unions of Athens to organize initiatives and campaigns of September 10 demanding immediate measures to support public transport and protest at the Ministry of Transport

We will not gamble our lives. We demand safe and good transport for the people.

The bad situation that exists in public transport even in the midst of a pandemic has turned buses, trolleybuses, metro and trains into places of transmission and spread of the coronavirus.

The crowded conditions that we experience every day as workers and passengers in the public transport we use refute in the most characteristic way the government’s propaganda that it is taking measures to protect the health of the people. So far they have not taken any effective measure

The current situation in urban transport is a result of the anti-peoples policies implemented by the governments of ND, SYRIZA and PASOK.

In ISAP (Athens Metro Line 1), 19 trains are routed daily instead of 33.

In bus transports of Athens instead of 1,800 vehicles (buses and trolleybuses), only 900 are routed.

The number of employees in urban transport in 2009 was 11,500 and in 2020 it is only 6,700.

The lack of workers, the lack of vehicles and trains, the age of the fleet and the frequent breakdowns result, especially during peak hours, the wait to be 10′-20′-30′ up to 50 minutes many times and then we are forced to stack one on top of the other. And then the government waving its finger at us talking about our individual responsibility.

And on top of all that, from 2009 the increase of the ticket price exceeds 65%.

Instead of immediately implementing the demands of the unions and mass organizations so as to protect the health of the people and ensure its safe transportation, the government uses these unacceptable conditions to strengthen business activity in urban transport, thus growing the problems.

Further privatization of urban transport will lead to MORE EXPENSIVE AND WORSE TRANSPORTATION, especially for those routes that are not “profitable”.

The HEALTH AND SAFETY of workers and passengers is in the balance with profits. A typical example is the rental of buses with leasing from Germany for the city Thessaloniki. Buses that have only one door for passengers and are without air conditioning, turning them into pandemic conditions into a time bomb for the people.

It is necessary to intensify the fight for effective measures to protect the health of the people, for the real coverage of our needs for cheap and safe transport. We call on the government to stop waving its finger at us and to take substantial measures here and now.

We demand:

Increase of means of transport especially at peak hours.

Health and safety measures for urban transport workers and passengers

Free transfer to workers who have been fired or whose employment contract has been suspended or who have been forced to work in shifts.

Immediate state funding for:

Recruitment of permanent staff of all specialties with full employment and insurance rights.

Repair and renewal of the fleet with the purchase of new vehicles and wagons.

No privatization activities in urban transport.

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