#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #GREECE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Greece, APO, JUMBO: LABOR MEDIEVAL IMPOSES EMPLOYMENT [machine translation]

 Intervention with text sharing, banners and T-shirts took place on Wednesday,

December 22 at Jumbo on America Street in Patras. A banner was also hung at the
Jumbo of Akti Dymaion ---- The following is the text that was shared: ----
AGAINST THE LABOR MEDIEVAL IMPOSED BY EMPLOYMENT, THE ONLY PERSPECTIVE
ORGANIZATION OF THE EMPLOYEES AND THE COLLECTIVE STRUGGLES ---- A few days ago,
JUMBO's employer announced to employees the new, internal rules of procedure of
the company. This 26-page regulation contains a series of anti-labor provisions,
which directly affect employees, crush all employment rights and deepen the
workplace conditions faced by employees, both in the company and beyond. .

According to the announcement of the Athens Chamber of Commerce, some of the key
points included in this new, reactionary regulation are the following:

The company can move and dismiss any employee of a store to any other store in
the territory, which means that someone working in a store in Athens may be
forced to move to a store in any other city.
Work time is considered exclusively the one during which the employees provide
"real" work, ie the breaks are excluded, the time needed for the preparation and
so on.
The time and the order of the licenses are determined by the company itself,
depending on the appetites of the employer and the "needs" that it has at any
given time.
The company has the status of "Personal Data Processing Manager", so it can at
any time file, intimidate and blackmail employees.
The company may, in addition to remarks and reprimands, impose a fine on the
"offending employee" by deducting up to ?? of his monthly salary.
All of the above do not come as a thunderbolt in the air, but are part of the
overall class attack they have unleashed with a particular state and capital in
the world of work and society. The scale of exploitation at the expense of
workers, the crushing of labor rights and trade union action, the dossier of
workers, the extermination hours, the slashed leave and the pay cuts, are all
part of the new working reality imposed by a sovereign reality. taken from the
deepest dreams of capital. The Hatzidakis anti-labor law, which was passed a few
months ago and which, among other things, abolishes the eight-hour period and
attacks trade union action, is the context in which the new round of bosses'
attack on employees is taking place today. The owner of JUMBO himself, a few days
after the complaints against the company, stated with bottomless audacity that
what is mentioned in various "union leaflets" are lies as the new provisions
promoted by the company move within the framework of legality, as defined and the
new anti-labor law.

In the midst of an unprecedented health and economic crisis, the state and
employers have not only taken no action to protect workers and society as a
whole, but have given the crisis an opportunity to pass a series of bills that
were at the top of their agenda. for decades and which always found before them
the dynamic and militant struggles of the workers and the whole struggling
society. It is obvious that the exacerbation of the overall crisis of the system,
which is a consequence of the structural and unresolved contradictions of the
capitalist edifice, is called upon to be paid once again by the workers at a
heavy price.

The period we are going through is extremely critical. Against the onslaught of
state and capitalist barbarism, on the escalation of labor exploitation, on the
state death policy (which has resulted in more than 19,000 deaths and mainly
affects the people of our class), in the face of state terrorism and repression
at the expense of those who fight, there is another way: the way of organizing
the workers, the resistance, the claiming and the social-class struggle in order
to get rid of the capitalist yoke. Today, it is more necessary than ever to take
life into our own hands, to organize and to fight, collectively in every social
and workplace, in schools and colleges, in the workplace, in neighborhoods and on
the streets. With class unions and workers' initiatives to form the militant
trade unionism of the base and to claim that it belongs to us, away from the
trade union elites which have a complementary role in terms of employers. The
victorious labor struggles in e-food and Cosco that took place a few months ago,
the strike of the miners in Cadiz and every small and big struggle waged by the
downstream at the expense of their exploiters in every corner of the earth are
images from the future and show that organization and struggle are the only way
to "not live as slaves" but to demand the overthrow of the existing unjust and
exploitative system and to build a world of equality, solidarity and freedom.

AGAINST THE ANTI-WORK DRAFT, EMPLOYMENT TERRORISM AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF
TRADE UNION ACTION

NOT A STEP BACK TO OUR NEEDS

THE WORKING MEDIEVAL IMPOSED BY OVERTHROWN ORGANIZED SOCIAL AND CLASSROOM STRUGGLES

Anarchist Group "Horse..."

https://ipposd.org/2021/12/22/
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