WEBHELP IS GOING TO CONFRONT US WITH EVERY DISMISSAL AND EVERY ATTEMPT TO TERRORISE.
The employer of WEBHELP should immediately abandon the different plans to terrorise the workers and any thought of dismissing our colleagues. We call on them to withdraw the dismissals they have already made, to protect all the jobs and to sit down at the negotiating table to meet our just demands and to sign a collective agreement, for which they already have our proposal in their hands.
We tell them that their plans will find a response from the workers, they will fail once again as happened in the three previous strike battles when they tried with threats, lies, cajoling and all kinds of tricks to prevent the workers, they got an impressive militant response that was heard not only in Greece but also in many foreign countries!
THE UNION IS OUR SHIELD!
They also got a response on Thursday when they tried with funny excuses to fire a founding member of our Union from a department. It is typical of their panic that while they sent the dismissal in the mail they had to take it back a few hours later as the Union made an immediate intervention with the employer denouncing their shabby practices. This is the only way forward. No dismissal will go unanswered! We will not tolerate anyone losing their job!
They continue to defiantly tell us that they care about our “well being” as they are supposedly a “people first” company while they have put dozens of workers under strict surveillance (action plan) with the aim through terror of moving to another project or dismissal to increase their profits and extinguish any claim. While they are well aware that the cost of housing, energy, transportation, food, etc. is rising day by day they choose to keep wages frozen. While they are well aware of how difficult it is to find work they throw workers on the street under funny pretexts! Enough is enough!
We ask them directly: Do you think that we, the workers of 2024, will tolerate working in such conditions? With the daily threat of dismissal? In a climate of terror against anyone who defends their rights? In an environment where our colleagues are sacked?
If they believe this, they are deeply mistaken! For two months now we have been making it clear to them that collectively and in an organised manner they will find us in front of them in any attempt they make to harm even one of us. With every passing hour we are getting stronger and more united and that is what they are afraid of!
We are workers, not numbers in their files. We know full well that we produce the wealth they reap and they need us!
We are not signing any layoffs, we are not alone. To every such attempt by the employer to lay off we respond in an organized way with our union . We do not tolerate any aggressive or threatening behavior and we immediately report to the union any incident brought to our attention. We call on all our colleagues to organize in our Union and our sectoral union, the SETIP. We are ready to give an even more militant and massive response to the employer’s plans by putting forward our own modern needs and not the needs of the company that wants us to be slaves in the 21st century!