Our determination scares them!!
Workers from the company’s largest Greek-speaking department, following mass assemblies, decided to proceed with two-day work stoppages demanding humane working conditions.
The Board of our Union convened and decided to support the workers by officially declaring the work stoppages.
The company’s fear in the face of the mass participation and determination of the workers was such that it immediately took legal action against the Union, attempting to block our colleagues’ struggle, while even demanding an enormous financial penalty as “compensation”.
The Union and the workers jointly decided not to give the company any excuse to attack our struggle. We therefore decided to withdraw the two-day work stoppage while fully supporting tomorrow’s (3/6) morning work stoppage from 9:00 to 13:00, and to proceed with a General Assembly on Sunday 7/6, where we will decide on the next steps of escalation.
We call on trade unions across the sector to support our struggle and stand by our side, sending the message that no attempt at intimidation can stop workers who are determined to take their lives into their own hands!
We salute the workers in the company’s largest Greek-speaking project who, through mass departmental assemblies and with the support of the Union, decided to mobilize in order to demand better working conditions by participating in rolling work stoppages on Wednesday 03/06 and Thursday 04/06 from 09:00–13:00 and 17:00–21:00.
• It is not enough that work intensification has reached unbearable levels, with constant process changes and increasing responsibilities being piled onto agents.
• It is not enough that shifts cannot be properly covered due to understaffing, while leave requests are being postponed or even denied ahead of the summer period.
• It is not enough that workers cannot finish on time because the system does not shut down, forcing colleagues to stay beyond their shifts on a daily basis.
• It is not enough that workers are human beings with basic physical needs and must ask for permission just to go to the bathroom, or even worse, have to provide a doctor’s note when they need to leave early for health reasons, as if they must prove they are not lying.
Management even has the audacity to deny them the mere €100 increase resulting from the minimum wage rise, while selectively granting raises to language groups the company “needs more.”
The colleagues know very well that it is their hard work and dedication that keep the department running. The company reaps the profits on the one hand, while on the other it plays dumb whenever workers demand wage increases and better working conditions, claiming that “this is all they can do.”
That is why the workers are making it clear that they will no longer back down from their needs and from the possibilities that exist for them to live and work under better conditions today.
They demand:
• Wage increases based on modern living needs.
• Adequate staffing of all teams and shifts.
• The monthly schedule to be released by mid-month instead of at the last minute.
• An end to forced overtime caused by the system not shutting down at the end of shifts.
• An end to the unacceptable practice of workers having to ask permission for their basic physical needs.
• An end to the department demanding doctor’s notes when workers take early leave for health reasons.
• Approval of all leave requests ahead of the summer period.
• An end to monitors being reset when procedures change daily without proper information and training for workers.
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OF THE WORKERS’ UNION AT WEBHELP (CONCENTRIX)
We stand in solidarity with the NOVA Workers’ Union and the workers in the back office department who, after more than 20 years of continuous work, are being thrown out onto the street under the guise of supposedly “attractive” voluntary redundancy schemes.
The company ignores the fact that many of these workers — the majority of them women — are only a few years away from retirement. Others are mothers with young children. Even workers battling cancer have been targeted.
Once again, one of the telecommunications giants shows that workers are seen as nothing more than a cost.
They are pushing out older employees in order to bring in new workers without rights, without seniority, and above all with lower demands.
This will not pass!
We will not leave our colleagues at NOVA — or at any other company pursuing similar practices — to face this alone.
Our strength lies in organization and solidarity!
We stand by your side!
The Board of Directors of our Workers’ Union condemns the anti-union dismissal of our colleague at Skroutz!
After 15 years of work at the company, they suddenly “remembered” that our colleague is allegedly “underperforming”!
But we know the truth! The company’s goal is to spread fear among workers and obstruct the Union’s activity, since our colleague is a union member and an elected member of the Board of Directors.
They know very well that when workers decide to stand up and fight, nothing can stop them!
We stand in solidarity with our colleagues at Skroutz and demand the immediate reinstatement of our colleague!
PRESS RELEASE
On Friday, April 24, our Union’s General Assembly was held with mass participation.
The issues discussed included the Union’s participation in the May Day strike, honoring the 140th anniversary of May Day 1886 in Chicago and 1936 in Thessaloniki.
With emotion and a commitment to continue the struggle until the final victory of our class, we honor the 200 communists who were executed in Kaisariani on May Day 1944 by the occupation forces and their local collaborators.
The discussion was enriched by the specific issues faced by the company’s departments, as well as the need to sign a Collective Labor Agreement that meets our contemporary needs.
The General Assembly unanimously voted to participate in the strike on Friday, May 1st, and in the gatherings of the unions.
WE CALL ON ALL WORKERS
ON MAY DAY AT 10:30 AT SYNTAGMA
We follow the path of the 200 of Kaisariani and continue until final victory!
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OF THE WORKERS’ UNION AT WEBHELP
1886 CHICAGO – 1936 THESSALONIKI – 1944 KAISARIANI
MAY DAY 2026
STRIKE RALLY – SYNTAGMA SQUARE, 10:30
140 years after the great strike in Chicago in 1886, the tobacco workers of Thessaloniki in 1936, and the ultimate sacrifice of the 200 communists on May Day of 1944 in Kaisariani, we pick up the thread and continue to fight today, under conditions where global war seems closer than ever.
In a world that is burning, we, the workers, have a duty toward history and toward our children to draw a clear line between ourselves and those who want us as pawns in their dangerous war chess game. We have a duty to stand up and demand better working and living conditions.
140 years later, we continue, against the barbarity of the now legalized 13-hour workday, to seek balance between working time and free time, safety in workplaces, and ensuring that our wages do not run out before the end of the month.
The large nationwide assembly of PAME, with the participation of 718 unions from all over Greece, makes us stronger. We unite our voices with more than 2,000 trade unionists, many of whom participated for the first time, as did our union, to declare that we will not tolerate working from dawn to dusk, being unable to meet the cost of living, and ultimately becoming cannon fodder in their wars.
The government of New Democracy today, building on the foundations laid by previous governments and implementing EU directives, clearly targets the working class of the country by increasing daily working hours, creating new “Violantes” every day, continuously underfunding health and education, while at the same time “miraculously” finding money to support the country’s involvement in war.
We, the workers—Greeks and migrants—who have already felt the consequences of war on our own skin, demand an end to any involvement of our country in war, the return of military missions stationed abroad to serve imperialist interests, and the closure of all US and NATO bases that make us targets of retaliation.
We refuse to make further sacrifices for their profits and their wars! We have nothing to gain but peace and the friendship of peoples, as is proven daily by practical solidarity with the long-suffering people of Palestine, the people of Cuba, Venezuela, and every place targeted by the vultures of imperialist attacks.
Today, when our safety openly conflicts with the interests of big business and the state, the time has come to set aside any doubts that silence can secure our jobs and to follow the path of our colleagues at Intracom, Vodafone, and Nokia, who through strike mobilizations secured unpaid wages and obstructed hundreds of layoffs and anti-labor plans of the corporate groups.
Today, more than ever, we must take matters into our own hands and build a future based on our rights and our children’s dreams, not on the appetites of every big business shark who values nothing but profit.
We, the workers at Concentrix, have experience. Through our struggles, our Union was born, and from its very first day it has stood by dozens of our colleagues, fighting to improve working conditions, reduce work intensification, and secure additional rights for mothers with infants or people with chronic illnesses. We know how to make each colleague’s issue a matter for all.
This May Day, with our heads held high, we strike and demand:
• Disengagement of the country from the war
• Immediate closure of all NATO bases
• Return of military forces stationed abroad
• Collective labor agreements guaranteeing wages and rights, 7-hour workday – 5-day week – 35-hour week
• Funding for Health and Education
We call on the company’s workers to a General Assembly on Friday 24/4, 18:00, at the offices of SETIP (58 Solomou Street, 3rd floor) to discuss our next steps in the struggle for a Collective Labor Agreement and the organization of the May 1st strike.
We follow the path of the 200 of Kaisariani
and continue until the final victory!
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OF THE WORKERS’ UNION
AT WEBHELP –
