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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)

It is at the very least outrageous that, 12 years after the cold-blooded murder of Pavlos Fyssas and the murderous attack on PAME trade unionists and KKE members in Perama, the leader of the Nazi criminal organization Golden Dawn, N. Michaloliakos, is being released from prison on the pretext of health reasons. We truly wonder what kind of “health reasons” worms like him could possibly face…

His place, and that of his gang, is in prison, and their so-called “ideology” belongs in the dustbin of history — where the strong and united workers’ and people’s movement has sent them and will keep sending them, no matter how many times they try to crawl back out in different forms.

Our union, with the majority of its members being migrants, women, and workers who struggle day and night to make ends meet, stands fearlessly against fascism, its visible and hidden representatives, and above all the system that nurtures them and uses them as guard dogs, ready to tear apart anyone who dares to raise their head.

We support and will take part in the rally called by the Labor Center of Piraeus (EKP) on Thursday 18/09, at 5:30 p.m., at the Pavlos Fyssas memorial in Keratsini.

We will not allow fascist rot to infect our neighborhoods and our workplaces.

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

Have the new anti-labor law that concerns the 13-hour workday withdrawn!
Everyone join the demonstration on Monday, 8/09, 7:30 p.m., at Syntagma

The new government bill escalates its attack on workers, building upon previous anti-labor laws, and seeks to establish 13-hour workdays for a single employer as standard practice. It further cheapens overtime for employers, by reducing the additional contributions they are required to pay.

It also targets summer leave, abolishing the employer’s obligation to grant it within the designated period and without splitting it up. This bill is clearly designed to serve the interests of big business groups.

We are already living the consequences, even before the bill has been voted in!
This summer, in many projects, workers were pressured to split their summer leave, being told there wasn’t enough staff to cover the gaps, while “flexibility” was presented as being “for everyone’s good.”
At the same time, overtime is demanded on a permanent basis, under the pretext that workers will “increase their income.”

The government’s narrative has already taken shape in our industry, including at Concentrix, where workers are “voluntarily” asked to work overtime!

They are hiding their true goal: to increase working hours in order to extract even greater profits from our already unpaid labor.
They indirectly admit that wages are insufficient, forcing many of us to work second jobs just to survive.

Our lives will not get better with 13-hour workdays, but with substantial wage increases, reduction of working hours, and stable schedules.

We demand:

• The new anti-labor bill must not be submitted!
• 7-hour workday, 5-day workweek, 35-hour week.
• Wage increases and signing of Collective Labor Agreements.
• Restoration of the three-year seniority allowances and their recognition throughout the entire working life.
• Health and safety measures in the workplace.

EVERYONE JOIN THE DEMONSTRATION ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, AT 7:30 PM, AT SYNTAGMA

pre-gathering at 6:30 p.m., Kaningos Square

ARRÊTEZ de participer et de soutenir le génocide contre le peuple palestinien !

LA GRÈCE NE DEVIENDRA PAS UN REFUGE POUR LES CRIMINELS DE GUERRE !

Le Syndicat des travailleurs de Webhelp (Concentrix) dénonce l’arrivée provocatrice d’un navire de croisière en provenance d’Israël au port du Pirée, transportant des soldats israéliens pour des « loisirs », alors que le peuple palestinien est massacré quotidiennement à Gaza par cet État meurtrier.

Ce navire de croisière doit subir le même sort que les navires transportant du matériel militaire, qui ne sont jamais autorisés à accoster au port.

Le gouvernement de la Nouvelle Démocratie, ainsi que les autres partis bourgeois, portent une lourde responsabilité dans leur soutien à cet État meurtrier. Avec la complicité de l’ambassade israélienne, ils utilisent l’arrivée de ce navire pour blanchir les crimes de cet État meurtrier et pour réprimer toute réaction ou expression de solidarité avec le peuple palestinien, sous prétexte « d’antisémitisme ».

Nous appelons tous les travailleurs de l’entreprise à exprimer activement et résolument leur solidarité avec le peuple palestinien. Le nombre de morts dépasse les 60 000, dont la majorité sont des enfants. Dans le même temps, le nombre d’enfants et de civils mourant de faim continue d’augmenter.

Nous nous joignons tous à la manifestation de protestation — forte, unie et déterminée — le jeudi 14 août, à 7h00, à la Porte E12, Port du Pirée.

Nos revendications:

• Aucune coopération économique, politique ou militaire avec l’État meurtrier d’Israël.
• Liberté pour la Palestine !
• Une fin immédiate à l’opération inacceptable visant à occuper la bande de Gaza.
• Reconnaissance de l’État palestinien dans les frontières de 1967, avec Jérusalem-Est comme capitale, conformément aux résolutions de l’ONU.

FERMIAMO il coinvolgimento e il sostegno al genocidio contro il popolo palestinese!

LA GRECIA NON DIVENTERÀ UN RIFUGIO PER I CRIMINALI DI GUERRA!

Il sindacato dei lavoratori di Webhelp (Concentrix) denuncia l’arrivo provocatorio di una nave da crociera proveniente da Israele nel porto del Pireo, che trasporta soldati israeliani in “vacanza”, in un momento in cui il popolo palestinese viene massacrato quotidianamente a Gaza dallo Stato assassino.
Questa nave da crociera dovrebbe subire lo stesso destino delle navi che trasportano attrezzature militari, alle quali non è mai stato permesso di attraccare al porto.

Il governo di Nuova Democrazia, insieme agli altri partiti borghesi, ha una grande responsabilità per il suo sostegno allo Stato assassino si Israele. Insieme all’ambasciata israeliana, stanno usando l’arrivo di questa nave da crociera per nascondere i crimini dello Stato assassino e per sopprimere qualsiasi reazione o espressione di solidarietà con il popolo palestinese, con il pretesto dell’“antisemitismo”.

Chiediamo a tutti i lavoratori dell’azienda di esprimere attivamente e con determinazione la nostra solidarietà al popolo palestinese. Il bilancio delle vittime ha superato le 60.000 persone, la maggior parte delle quali sono bambini. Allo stesso tempo, il numero di bambini e civili che muoiono di fame continua ad aumentare.

Uniamoci tutti alla manifestazione di protesta – forti, uniti e determinati – giovedì 14 agosto, alle 7 di mattina, al Gate E12, Porto del Pireo.

Chiediamo:
• Nessuna cooperazione economica, politica o militare e nessun sostegno allo Stato assassino di Israele.
•  Libertà per la Palestina!
• La fine immediata dell’inaccettabile operazione volta all’occupazione della Striscia di Gaza.
•  Il riconoscimento dello Stato palestinese entro i confini del 1967, con Gerusalemme Est come capitale, in linea con le risoluzioni delle Nazioni Unite.

Colleagues,

We are astonished to learn that the understaffing of a department — especially a tourism-related one during a period of high demand — is now considered the responsibility of the worker.. With outrageous audacity, colleagues have been informed that they cannot take two consecutive weeks of AHL, as stipulated by the law on summer vacations. However, since the company cares deeply about its personnel, it has made a huge concession: it will grant leave on the condition that each worker works one hour of overtime every day!

The law allowing unlimited overtime for the same employer has barely passed, and Concentrix, in this particular tourism project, is already going one step further… MANDATORY overtime if you want to take leave!

It doesn’t matter if you’ve worked in the project for years. It doesn’t matter if you’re a single parent or a mother of an infant — if you want to take time off, you’ll have to work extra! After all, whose fault is the lack of staff if not the staff’s itself, right? Of course, the idea of hiring more people to meet increased needs never even crosses the minds of the management, who continue to demand flawless service from exhausted workers.

Likewise, it seems to be a problem in this project to be both a worker and a mother!
With schools closed and no childcare infrastructure available, the company has forced a mother of a 2.5-year-old child to stop working from home and return to the office — completely indifferent to where and with whom the child will stay.

Since these incidents appear to be becoming routine, we call on all workers from all departments to stay alert, to get organized, and to stay in contact with our Union for every attempt to violate our labor rights.

The struggle for humane working conditions doesn’t go on vacation. We are united against every effort to undermine our rights.

The Board of Directors

of the Workers’ Union at Webhelp (Concentrix)