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Colleagues,

Last weekend, the 33rd Congress of the Athens Labor Center (EKA) took place.

Despite the efforts of yellow trade unionism, the Congress turned into a strong and living expression of the workers’ voice. It was a real, active Congress, filled with workers from dozens of workplaces who shared their experience of struggle.

Our Union participated with three elected delegates, together with our sectoral Union, SETIP.

Following a proposal by the class-oriented forces within EKA, a four-hour work stoppage (12:00–16:00) and a mobilization at Syntagma were approved for Friday, 13/2, against the disgraceful law that freezes Collective Labor Agreements, making them dependent on algorithms and on the government’s dealings with the leadership of General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE) and the employers.

Our Union calls on all workers to take part in the work stoppage and the mobilization together with all the unions of Athens.

We respond clearly: the issue of the Collective Agreement is exclusively a matter for the workers and their unions, and it must be determined solely according to our needs.

ALL TO SYNTAGMA TOMORROW AT 13:00!

We denounce the company’s attempt to dismiss a colleague who is an elected member of the Board of Directors of our Union, today, Monday 5/1/2025.

Before 2026 had even properly begun, the company, acting behind closed doors, sent a dismissal notice to our colleague, despite the fact that in the previous period he had been informed that he would be transferred to another department.

Following the intervention of our Union, the company was forced to withdraw the unacceptable dismissal of our colleague, using the absurd argument that it “was not aware” of his position.

We remind the company that our colleague is a member of the Board of Directors of the Union and has met with the management in that capacity on issues concerning the workers. He has also carried out interventions in his project together with other colleagues in order to improve working conditions.

Of course, the real issue is not whether the company knew or did not know who our colleague was which it was obliged to know but the fact that, just a few days after the holidays, yet another worker was about to be left without a job, because the company considers him a cost.

For us, the position is clear and non-negotiable: no colleague is expendable.

We know very well that employers do not respect laws and regulations. They do not take into account our needs or the needs of our families.

We call on all colleagues to strengthen our Union and to contact us immediately regarding any issue that arises.

We continue our struggle to meet all our contemporary needs for better wages and improved working conditions and on these demands we will not take a single step back.

Even more colleagues must organize and fight through our Union — to block the company’s plans and escalate our collective struggle.

The Board of Directors
of the Workers’ Union at Webhelp (Concentrix)

The Workers’ Union at Webhelp (Concentrix) stands in solidarity with the fair struggle of farmers across the country.
Farmers who are fighting to provide affordable and quality products are struggling to make ends meet in the face of EU and Common Agriculture Policy (CAP), of all previous governments, and of the endless scandals that keep emerging. They are fighting so that we too can buy the products they produce at fair prices — not at prices determined by the profits of those who intervene between the field and the market, from the wholesalers to the supermarket shelves.

They have taken to the streets, using the only weapon they have to demand the right to stay and work on their land, for themselves and their families.
In our sector, we know very well what struggle means — and what it means to resist the suffocation of low wages, endless overtime, work without a proper schedule, without understanding of personal circumstances such as chronic illnesses, and so on. We know the need to stand up against anything that puts our lives and our rights in second place.

We denounce the government’s attempt to break the farmers’ militant mobilizations by once again sending in the riot police to crack down violently.
They did not succeed — and they will not succeed as long as all of us, workers and farmers alike, stand side by side in the struggle for a life and a job with rights, for a future free from the rot of a system that wants us as slaves to the politics of profit.

Victory to the Farmers’ Struggle

The Board of Directors
Workers’ Union at Webhelp (Concentrix)

EVERYONE ON STRIKE – TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 10:30 AM, PROPYLAEA

The massive strike of October 1, with the participation of thousands of workers across the country — including at Concentrix — sent a strong message to both employers and the government: the bill that wants to turn us into machines is rejected.

A clear sign of the employer’s panic was that on the day of the strike, they tried every possible way to intimidate workers, even going so far as to threaten colleagues not to join the strike because “they don’t know who they’re up against!”

We respond that we know very well who stands against us!
It is the employers and the government, who seek to legalize the exhaustion of workers — who want to make us work up to 13 hours a day for the same employer, effectively abolishing the 8-hour workday and turning our lives into a modern labor nightmare.

They want workers without rights, without fixed schedules, without collective agreements, without a voice. They want us available at all times, to exploit us as much as possible, whenever and for as long as they wish, according to their own needs, in order to survive in their race for competition and profit.

Now is the time to strengthen the workers’ organization in every department of the company.
We must escalate our struggle to withdraw this anti-labor monstrosity and open the way for real demands and the satisfaction of our needs.

We must now strengthen even more decisively the fight for: a 7-hour workday – 5-day week – 35-hour work week,for the signing of a company-level Collective Labor Agreement with real wage increases and effective health and safety measures in the workplace.

We demand:
• Withdrawal of the new anti-labor bill
• 7-hour day – 5-day week – 35-hour work week, with stable daily working hours
• Real wage increases and immediate signing of a Collective Agreement based on our Union’s proposal

EVERYONE ON STRIKE – TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 10:30 AM, PROPYLAEA
Pre-gathering at 9:30 AM, Kaningos Square

NO TOLERANCE FOR THE COMPANY’S THREATS

EVERYONE ON STRIKE – OCTOBER 1st, 10:30 a.m., PROPYLAEA

Gathering point: 9:30 a.m., Kaningos Square

It seems the company loses its composure at the very mention of the word STRIKE.
They intimidate colleagues (“you don’t know who you’re up against”), they urge workers to take leave instead of declaring strike participation, they spread defeatism claiming that “nothing ever changes,” and they suddenly offer remote work—while denying this very right to new mothers and workers facing serious health issues.

Why is that?

Could it be because every company that cares about its profits trembles when workers organize?

Could it be because they know that when a worker decides to go on strike—against a whole system that pushes them to sit on the couch as a passive spectator rather than an active participant—something powerful is at stake?

Could it be because this strike, which stands against employers’ ruthless demands for 13-hour workdays, arbitrary leave, and the abolition of basic labor rights, becomes a matter of life and death for our class?

Could it be because workplaces have turned into horror escape rooms, with safety and hygiene rules rarely followed, leading to a sharp rise in workplace accidents and fatalities?

Could it be because, in the end, employers know very well that without us they are nothing but parasites—since we are the ones producing their profits?

We, the workers of Concentrix, have one thing to say:

WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS, NOT MACHINES

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OF THE WORKERS UNION
AT WEBHELP (CONCENTRIX)