EUROVISION, LET’S GO! This year’s Greek Eurovision Song Contest: Courtesy of the suffering laid-off employees of the Metropolis Stores Andreas Kouris (owner of MAD Media Group and the Metropolis Stores) claims that he has no money to pay wages and compensations owed to his laid-off employees, nor his debts towards […]
layoffs
9 posts
On Tuesday, December 13th, workers call for 24hour strike in the entire Thriassio Field (the biggest industrial area in Greece, located in western Attica, 25 kilometres northwest of Athens), in solidarity with the steelworkers’ struggle. On Saturday, December 10th, a number of solidarity groups spent the day outside the factory […]
The contract staff of the Municipal Computerization (DAEM, a City of Athens corporation) is threatened with mass layoff. As they mentioned in an earlier press release, “The Greek government, which for years refused to accept the change of the designation of our contracts so that they would represent the true […]
Since the bureaucrats of the Ministry for Health and Social Solidarity (!) worked so hard on a new bill in late August — while many people were on vacation — they managed to announce their well-considered decision to reduce by 50% the 2011 budgeted amount that was intended for mental […]
The comrades of the Sindicato de Artes e Ofícios Vários de Araxá (Syndicate of Various Arts and Crafts of Araxá), Minas Gerais, Brazil, affiliated to the Confederação Operária Brasileira (Brazilian Workers’ Confederation), Brazilian section of the International Workers Association, are under pressure from FF Commercial (Lotto and Finta brands) with […]
The working people in the industrial zone of Volos, we live for good the after-effects of the capitalist financial crisis and the antipopular attack of the IMF memorandum: Dismissals, shutdown of production units, violent reduction of wages. Facing this reality, even working people who have not yet received an attack […]
The attack of the greek and international Capital in order to achieve a number of changes concerning first of all the reform of the productive procedure model, with violent and sweeping changes of working, insurance and retirement conditions, and aiming to increase the working people’s exploitation, did not leave out […]
Approximately 100 ministry contractual employees barricaded themselves inside the Acropolis site overnight on Wednesday, 13 October, demanding two years of back pay and permanent contracts. They padlocked the entrance gates and refused to allow in tourists. Guardians of the Acropolis site (Athens, Greece) work in behalf of the Hellenic Ministry […]
Unrest is prevalent among the workers of the Metropolis store chain, after the notification from the new administration, (Andreas Kouris of MAD group – son of Makis Kouris, owner of the “Paron” newspaper), of his intention to unilaterally establish an obligatory 4-day work schedule with a corresponding reduction in wages, […]