Media workers have decided on an emergency 24-hour strike for Wednesday, September 21. The strike was announced by the Athens Labor Center (EKA) in view of the passing of the draft law on DEKOs in the Parliament.
The announcement of the OASA Workers union states:
"Extraordinarily today, at the meeting of our Board of Directors (20/09/2022), we decided to participate in the 24-hour strike announced by the E.K.A. We strongly object to it Bill of the Ministry of Finance which is introduced for a vote in the parliament whose provisions aim at the privatization of transport and the abolition of labor rights".
Apart from the buses and trolleys, there will be no Metro, ISAP and tram services tomorrow from the start to the end of the shift, as decided by the STA.SY workers' union, while a protest rally will be held at the Ministry of Finance at 12 noon.
The provisions with which EKA disagrees are the following:
- The employment status of employees in Public Enterprises and Organizations is being undermined by the introduction of regulations that lead to two-speed workers.
- The operational S.S.E. are cancelled. and the Labor Regulations for new hires.
- The door opens for hired workers in Public Enterprises and Organizations.
- Either full-time employment or indefinite-term employment with the possibility of hiring temporary employees is abolished, and indeed not in support systems but also in basic specialties such as drivers or technicians in public transport companies.
- The role of the ASEP in the recruitment system is eliminated in a standard check of a few days that will never be completed, giving the possibility to committees of the companies themselves to determine the way of personnel selection, introducing now also the slow process of the personal interview.
- The possibility of the employees of OASA and its subsidiaries to be subject to the mobility system of Law 4440/2016 is curtailed.
The EKA calls for the immediate withdrawal of the bill, the preservation of the public character of all Public Enterprises and Organizations, the immediate signing of Collective Labor Agreements in Public Enterprises that have not been signed, the filling of vacant jobs by the recruitment of full-time permanent staff , with the essential supervision of the ASEP and the restoration of the possibility of the social partners (employee organizations and DEKO administrations) to agree on salary and non-salary terms with Collective Labor Agreements.
"For the EKA it is imperative both to maintain the public character of Public Enterprises and Organizations and to protect the jobs and working conditions of the staff who must be employed in these key positions, with an indefinite full-time relationship. It is impermissible to further degrade the operational Collective Agreements in these companies, at a time when, in the European Union, a draft Directive is already in the works with which the Member States are obliged to strengthen sectoral and cross-sectoral collective bargaining as an essential factor for the protection of the employees", the announcement typically states.
source https://in.gr
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