To
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Birlesik Metal-Is
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Embassy of Turkey in Greece
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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
