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Solidarity with the Strikers of Speedex!

Uncategorized May 5, 2025

We express our solidarity and stand by the workers of Speedex, who are fighting for the re-employment of their colleagues and for the signing of an operational collective agreement.

We strongly condemn the company’s attempt to terrorize by sending the Speedex Workers’ Union to court, calling their fair strike to be illegal, while the company tried to set up strike-breaking mechanisms. We have a lot of experience both as a movement in general and in our sector of similar practices.

We have only one answer to give:

Terror will not prevail — the workers’ struggle will break it!

Our union, like all class unions, we demand permanent and stable work with rights and with wages that correspond to our modern needs. We march against any logic that wants silence in workplaces, heads down and fatalistic acceptance of legal slavery. Solidarity is the weapon of our class and with it we move forward united in front of every battle for better conditions today and tomorrow.

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

Strike on May Day 2025

Uncategorized April 28, 2025

MAY DAY IS NOT A BANK HOLIDAY

IT’S A STRIKE

The workers of Concentrix, who come from almost every corner of the globe, we honour May Day by participating massively in the strike mobilisation. We put down the headset, turn off the chats, put aside our back-office work and stand up in memory of those who gave their lives to ensure that today we have 8 hours of work, freedom and the right to live a life with rights.

We honour the memory of the fallen of Chicago in 1886 and Thessaloniki in 1936. The 200 communists of Kaisariani on May Day 1944. The victims of the crime in Tempe. The at least 200 deaths that our class has mourned from industrial accidents in the last two years. The thousands of deaths and refugees generated by the rotten system we live under. Wars, disasters, genocide, mothers with babies in boats ending up in liquid graves. Palestine, Syria, Lebanon. Every corner of the world where “people are killed for the master’s food”.

Either their profits or our lives.

 we will not take a step back.

Today, more urgently than ever, we have a duty to intensify the struggle for work with conditions and wages that meet modern needs. Today, 139 years after the bloody workers’ uprising in Chicago, we work in complete insecurity. The eight-hour shift, which was achieved more than a century ago, seems like a distant memory. The salaries run out on the very first 10 days of the month, and every month we throw to chance which bills we will leave unpaid for the next month.

In a company like Concentrix, where every now and then we are informed about the profit barrier that is constantly being exceeded thanks to our work, it is unacceptable that there are workers who have panic attacks, who are told on Friday night what time they will work on Monday, where the complaints to the labour inspectorate about labour rights violations are never-ending.

Colleagues, our Union recently reached its first year of existence. A Union created through struggles, through unprecedented strike battles. Let this May Day be a great birthday celebration for our Union, alongside our sectoral union, the SETIP.

We strengthen our class struggle against the system that deprives us of oxygen!

Everyone to the May Day strike at 10:30 am at Syntagma

Wreath laying by SETIP at 8:45 am OTE building (Koletti)

Press release for the General Assembly. We strike on 28 February!

PRESS RELEASE February 16, 2025

Press release for the General Assembly

 

All join the strike on 28 February!

Athens, 16-02-2025

Our Union held a General Assembly on Saturday 15/02 for the preparation of the strike.

Through rich discussion and exchange of experience from the company’s departments, we exchanged thoughts, opinions and concerns.

The strike on 28 February will be more massive!

To send a strong message to the government of the New Democracy, to the coalition “opposition” of SYRIZA-PASOK and all those who support the government policy, that we workers in the dilemma “their profits or our lives” will always choose the former!

We strike!

  • We strike so that the crime in Tempe is not covered up! All criminal and political responsibilities must be held accountable.
  • We strike to stop the dismissals in all departments now.
  • We strike to demand health and safety measures for all workers.
  • We are striking to get a Collective Labour Agreement signed with permanent contracts for everyone, with raises that cover our needs, rights and achievements that affect every aspect of our work.

The General Assembly decided the following:

  • Participation in the strike on 28 February, at 11.00 am at Syntagma.
  • Organizing meetings in the following period by project on the subject of the CLA.

THE CRIME OF THE TEMPE WILL NOT BE COVERED UP! All join the strike on 28 FEBRUARY! GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the Union, SATURDAY 15/02 12.00

Uncategorized February 13, 2025

Everyone at the General Assembly of our Union, Saturday 15 February, at 31st Platonos Street (Kallithea),12:00pm.

 

28 February we all strike!

 

Do not cover up the crime in Tempe!

Colleagues,

The Workers’ Union in Webhelp (Concentrix) calls on all colleagues to participate in the strike on the 28th of February, to join our voices with all colleagues in the sector, in Teleperformance, in Foundever, in TTEC who are experiencing the same or very close problems as ours. With students, pupils, railway workers, teachers, health workers, miners and dockers.

As workers, we know first-hand what the “let’s go and see” logic that led to the state crime in Tempe means. The intensification, the pressure, the shutting down of departments, the layoffs, the warning letters, the panic attacks. All to maximize their profitability with complete disregard for our lives.

We all live and work in a vast vale of Tempe, in a general work jungle, and dangers at every turn of everyday life, whether in trains and public transport, in understaffed hospitals, in the schools of the sponsors who want to impose, where ceilings by chance do not fall on the heads of our children. The intensification, the pressure, the monitoring of every last second of our working day.

Our struggle for the signing of a Collective Labour Agreement with rights and achievements for all, increases that cover our modern needs, immediate implementation of the Presidential Decree on the organisation of working time for working on screens, the immediate provision of ergonomic equipment to all colleagues who work by telework. It is directly linked to the struggle against the logic that created the crime in Tempe, the policy that promotes its cover-up.

 

Our lives are NOT a cost! On 28 February we all participate in the strike!

We will not step back! We will not accept to live like modern slaves for their profits! We assert that the promise we made to be the voice of all those that died will be fulfilled by fighting to the end!

We demand:

 

    • Hold all criminal and political accountable for the crime of Tempe.
    • Stop the dismissals now.
    • The signing of a Collective Labour Agreement with: permanent contracts for all colleagues, raises for all that meet our needs, rights and gains that affect every aspect of our work.
    • Immediate implementation of the necessary health and safety measures for all, especially for colleagues who work from home and provide ergonomic desks and chairs.

 

We call:

 

    • To the General National strike on 28/02 and the gathering at Syntagma at 11.00 am, which has already been announced by dozens of Labor Centers, Federations and Unions all over Greece.

 

Everyone at the General Assembly of our Union, Saturday 15 February, at 31st Platonos Street (Kallithea),12:00pm.

 

28 February we all strike!

 

Do not cover up the crime in Tempe!

 

 

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Solidarity to the striking workers at Teleperformance

Uncategorized November 19, 2024

Τhe Workers’ Union in Webhelp-Concentrix stands by the side of the colleagues participating in the 48-hour strike 19-20/11 at Teleperformance demanding the signing of a collective agreement.

The struggle of our colleagues in TP is also our struggle, many of us have been in the same departments for years together and we face the same problems.

Our struggle is common and fair so we join our voice with our striking colleagues!

On Wednesday 20/11 we meet in the big nationwide strike of our sector unions!

NO WORKER TO LOSE HIS JOB

Uncategorized November 14, 2024

Colleagues,

Our Union has received information from our colleagues in a Greek department that it will be closed from February. They were immediately asked to choose which department they want to move to, after being given half an hour (!) to respond.

Meeting with department managers one by one, our colleagues found themselves in the position of having to choose between employment in another department, or dismissal.

We call on the company here and now not to let a single job be lost! We do not accept a single euro to be cut from the wages of our colleagues! We point out that the employees of the department are paid a basic salary while the company is making a fortune on their backs.

We will not accept any blackmail on our colleagues to take decisions that will affect their entire lives without even giving them time to negotiate.

We will not be at the mercy of the bosses’ appetites and we will not allow anyone to make our already poor working conditions more difficult!

NO ONE ON THEIR OWN!

The Workers’ Union in Webhelp-Concentrix calls on all colleagues to contact the Union immediately, to not accept any blackmail. Together we will give all our strength and exhaust every possibility to secure the rights of our colleagues!

ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL

WE DEMAND

  • No worker to lose his job.

  • Immediate transfer of colleagues to other projects without any terms and conditions.

  • Stop the methodical individual negotiations that aim to put our colleagues in a difficult position.

  • Raises in our salaries now!

EVERYONE ON THE STRIKE ON 20/11/2024  

FOR BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS – FOR RAISES IN OUR SALARIES

PRESS RELEASE

PRESS RELEASE November 11, 2024

Athens, 11/11/2024

On Saturday 9/11 the General Assembly of our Union took place. A great deal of experience came from the mobilizations of the previous period. The need to continue the mobilizations as a whole and by department was highlighted, as many of our demands have not yet been met.

Special mention was made of the struggle for a Collective Labour Agreement even though the company has refused to start negotiations.

A notable reference was made to the company’s attempt to terrorize us by dragging our Union’s Board of Directors to court for the strike that it organized and had massive participation in a Greek-speaking department on 10/10.

This fact proves how the company is in the end intimidated by the organisation of the workers’ struggle and the power we have in our hands when we decide to fight for our rights. 

After the voting, the following decisions were taken:

– Participation in the 24-hour national strike on 20/11.

– Mobilization at the Ministry of Immigration on 18/11, 19:00.

– Continuation of the struggle for the signing of a Collective Labour Agreement.

– Meetings by project.

– Organization of a solidarity event for Palestine.

STRIKE IN A PROJECT

Uncategorized October 13, 2024

The company’s panic after the announcement of the strike in a Greek-speaking project, as a step of escalation in the complete disregard on the part of the management to the demands of our colleagues, shows the strength we have.

It shows that without us, the company is a hollow building, unable to produce the profits it brags about every quarter in its statistics.

The minute after the strike was announced by the workers, the company rushed to send an email declaring it illegal and making the now familiar threats that participation in it would have consequences for the program and the bonus.  

Threats that did not work, as the strike had almost a total participation and this forced the management to ask for the workers’ demands to be examined.

It is a huge victory! It shows the way. It shows that we have the power to demand work with rights and dignity. We take an example from the brave stand of our colleagues and continue on the same path to sign a Collective Labour Agreement.

Without us, no call is answered – no ticket is closed!

We have right on our side!

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE WORKERS’ UNION AT WEBHELP – CONCENTRIX

Instructions for participating on the strike on May Day

INSTRUCTIONS April 29, 2024

With the official declaration of the May Day strike by GSEE, the General Confederation of Workers of Greece all of us are covered to not attend work on Wednesday 1st of May starting from 00.00 until 00.00 Thursday the 2nd of May, as this is a justified absence by law.

Send them template below. So we will make sure they declare everything properly. Declare it ESPECIALLY if they have put you on a day off. So the participation can be counted properly.

On the day of the strike:

Do not log in, and if you do not feel like it, do not answer any calls by the management. They have no right to ask for any explanation or force you to come to work.
During the strike those working from home or in the buildings, we meet in front of the main building of Webhelp at 08.00 on Wednesday the first of May at Metropolis building.
We meet at 10.30 at Syntagma.
Together we will win! No one is alone!

Template for strike:

Dear (supervisor name),

I will be participating to the General 24 hour strike declared by GSEE, which constitutes a justified absence, covering all workers of (your company), as per the law 1264/82. In Support for the Unions call for signing a CLA and for the demands concerning all aspects of our work. Which echoe the general requests as well.

Thank you very much for your time in advance.

Kind regards,

(Name and last name)

May Day is not a bank holiday, it’s a Strike Day!

Uncategorized April 25, 2024

We denounce the attempt of Webhelp – Concentrix to devalue the May Day strike with unacceptable tactics!

Specifically, in departments where colleagues participated massively in previous strikes, they are now being pressured to take a day off, saying that the May Day “holiday” has been moved by the government to May 7th.

We respond to the Webhelp – Concentrix management that on May Day the workers do not ask for a day off to go to the countryside, they strike globally in honour of the workers of all countries who gave their lives to have basic labour rights which are daily violated! We are on strike at Webhelp to have a Collective Labour Agreement with increases – we call once again on the management to proceed immediately with the procedures for signing it.

May Day is not a Bank Holiday, it’s a Strike Day!

Through the previous strikes that we, the workers of Webhelp, have organized, we forced the company to make increases. We make it clear that we are not stopping our struggle for signing a collective labour agreement since these increases are far from the needs based on the situation!

 We have achieved a major victory on the special purpose visa issue.

We created our Union with hundreds of colleagues becoming members. We confronted layoffs and terrorism within the projects.

We proved that only when we are organised and struggle together for our self-evident rights can we count victories in these difficult times.

We call on all our colleagues to participate en masse in the strike meetings of our union on 1 May, giving once again an answer to all those who want us bowed down, without memory and ultimately without a future.

For us, for our children, for our lives, not for their profits!

We demand:

  • Here and now the continuation of negotiations for the signing of a Collective Labour Agreement.

  • Work 5 days-7 hours a day-35 hours a week.

  • One hour break based on the regulation provided for working with monitors. Except for breaks for personal needs.

  • Automatic wage adjustment based on the increase index in consumer goods.

  • Protection of young mothers and people with health issues.

Against the attempt to intimidation, we all become members of our Union and call on our colleagues to do the same.

Only in this way will we build a shield of protection against any attempt to intimidate workers!

ALL ON STRIKE ON MAY 1st,  10.30 AM AT SYNTAGMA

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