Call for strike mobilization by the Union of Private Employees of Heraklion Prefecture

Call to strike action which will take place on May Dayat 10 in the morning at Eleftheria Squareaddressed by Union of Private Employees of the Prefecture of Heraklion.

The announcement states:

“131 years since the May Day of Athens and the claim of 8 hours as a mature need since then, we are faced with the directives of the E.U. and the corresponding anti-labor legislation that all governments and the current one have passed, in order to abolish the 8-hour shift, to make the working time flexible, to establish the 13-hour, 6-day and 7-day work. Laws and directives that found and find the support of employers’ trade unionists who serve capital and bourgeois party politics.

80 years since the execution of the 200 communists in Kaisariani, among them the militant president of our union Napoleon Soukatzidis, this year’s May Day finds the working class facing the full-frontal attack of the EU, the bourgeois states and business groups against everyone those who fight for the rights of the workers, with the dirty equation of fascism – communism.

From Chicago in 1886 to May Day in Athens in 1894, from May 1936 in Thessaloniki to May Day 1944 with the heroic sacrifice of 200 communists in Kaisariani, the working class has written with the indelible ink of its blood the most brilliant pages of class struggle, organized struggle and assertion, which no amount of state and employer terrorism and repression can stop.

It marks the struggle of the workers, against their capitalist exploiters, to claim better working and living conditions, but also to pave the way for the abolition of the exploitation of man by man, for the overthrow of capitalist brutality.

May Day is not a holiday, it is a strike! And so competitively it will be honored by all workers

The strike mobilizations on February 28 and April 17, against the efforts of the GSEE and ADEDY leaderships, the factions of PASKE, DAKE, SYRIZA/New Left who fought these strikes, tried to weaken and undermine them, they gave the message of the working class that against the profits of the capitalists it prioritizes its life!

This is the “progress” of the business groups and their political staff, the EU, NATO and the other wolf alliances of the bourgeoisie:

Intensity of exploitation and war!

75 years since the establishment of the NATO imperialist killing machine and 25 years since the dismemberment of Yugoslavia by NATO and the EU, the workers and popular strata are experiencing the consequences of the intensity of imperialist wars and conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. They are experiencing the consequences of Greece’s ever deeper involvement in this imperialist merry-go-round, of its increasingly strong ties with NATO and the EU, for the benefit of shipowners, industrialists, businessmen and their interests in the region.

At the same time in our country the workers experience poverty and exploitation, they are forced to live with wages reduced by 25% compared to 2010, in fact it has made basic survival goods unattainable. Business groups are making record profits on the back of battered workers’ rights, lack of workplace health and safety measures that have left hundreds of our colleagues dead. After all, this is the basic condition for disbursing the huge amounts of the Recovery Fund from the business groups, when our people are forced to put their hands deep in their pockets to even have a doctor in the afternoon surgeries.

This policy is implemented in all EU countries. it is the reason why workers are taking to the streets en masse and fighting for their modern needs. They are hopeful struggles, they show the enormous power of the organized working class, they illuminate the path of perspective against capitalist exploitation.

We continue even more determined to:

· The demand for better working and living conditions, for SSE with increases in wages and expansion of rights.

· The immediate repeal of the anti-labor laws that crush the 8-hour shift and criminalize union activity, prohibit the right to strike. We fight for 7 hours – 5 days – 35 hours as the development of science and technology allows.

· Immediate measures against accuracy.

· Immediate measures for the health and safety of workers at work.

· Disengagement from imperialist designs and war conflicts.

Solidarity with the people of Palestine, in the just and cruel struggle they are fighting against the murderous state of Israel, which is slaughtering them with the backs of NATO and the EU.

For the working class around the world, May Day is a beacon of implacable class struggle. The ND government’s attempt to abolish the May Day strike, based on a SYRIZA law, and turn it into a festive holiday, will not pass.

Our struggles must continue and grow stronger.

EVERYONE at the May Day strike and at the strike meeting Wednesday May 1st at 10 am in pl. Freedom».

The article “May Day: Call for strike mobilization by the Union of Private Employees of the Prefecture of Heraklion”, was published for the first time in CRETA24.

Source CRETA24