WORLD WORLDWIDE GREECE News Journal Update - (en) Greece, Protaanka: Announcement about the new anti-labor bill and the September 21st strike (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 On Thursday, September 21st, a new anti-labor bill will be submitted to

the Parliament under the title "Incorporation of a Directive of the
European Parliament and the EU Council on transparent and predictable
working conditions". The provisions of the bill to be voted on are
clearly coming to add one more volley to the quiver of anti-labor policy
that is increasingly being armed to the detriment of the world of work
and to the benefit of employers. Only if we take a brief look back at
the last few years will we understand that the new provisions to be
passed are an organic continuation of a series of consecutive bills
which have affected labor rights and conquests of centuries: from the
Ahtsioglou bill in 2017, the Vroutsi bill in November 2020, in then the
Hatzidakis bill in June 2021, now we move on to the Georgiadis bill. The
main points of all of the above are the complete disintegration of labor
rights, the ever greater extension of the legal working time both in
hours (with the abolition of 8 hours) and in days (with the extended
abolition of the Sunday holiday), the successive strikes on trade union
freedoms and the increasing flexibility of labor relations.

The provisions of the new bill move exactly along these lines. In
particular, the regulation that has rightly caused the most noise is
related to the new blow received by the historic conquest of the 8-hour
five-day work, with the legal recognition of 13-hour work a day or 78
hours a week for more than one employer. At the same time, the right to
5-day work is affected by the provision for a sixth day of work in
continuously operating enterprises with the system of alternating
shifts, while the abolition of the Sunday holiday in the sectors of the
food and bottling industry is extended. The regulations include the
institutionalization of "minimum and zero working hours" contracts as
well as "on demand" contracts, which bring the possibility of complete
"flexibility" on the part of the boss and complete insecurity on the
part of the employee, the who can be called to work for as long as and
whenever the employer needs him, not having a fixed salary, but payment
by the piece.

Finally, as a "necessary" supplement for the extortionate and unimpeded
implementation of all the above (and not only) measures, the further
suppression of labor claims is attempted, with provisions that affect
the already well-established right to strike. This time, the bill
provides prison terms and fines for anyone who "obstructs in any way the
free and unobstructed entry or exit from the workplace" or "participates
in occupying workplaces or their entrances during or regardless of a
strike." It is clear that this is another attempt to criminalize the
otherwise "free right" to strike, which strengthens the anti-striking
mechanisms, reminding us that nothing is going to be granted or given to
us by the bourgeois democracy, if we do not conquer it with our own us
matches.

The attempt on the part of the government to present the provisions of
the bill, with particular emphasis on the one that brings the legal
coverage of "overtime" employment to two employers, as allegedly
protective for employees, the only result that can reasonably bring
about is the further outrage of the world of work. And this is because
if the popular current minister of labor is right about one thing, it is
that the present regulations come to legitimize with the state decree a
condition that is unfortunately already in effect in practice, which
applies especially to sectors characterized by overflowing and flexible
working hours (e.g. .eg focus) and we see it being attempted to expand
(eg with the above arrangements for working in the industry sector). And
this condition is none other than the reality of the exhausting -
inhuman hours, the two and three jobs that many workers are forced to do
to make ends meet.

Anyone who is on the side of the world of work and has experienced the
extortionate condition of wage slavery can easily understand that the
provisions of the anti-labor bill to be passed are designed to protect
and secure as much as possible the interests and needs of the bosses. ,
expanding the legal limits of their indecency towards employees.

In addition, anyone who has worked even a day in their life can easily
understand that no worker chooses to work 13 or more hours a day out of
a hobby, but out of the basic necessity of survival within an
exploitative system such as his capitalism and the state. Essentially,
what they are telling us to our faces is that you can work 13 hours a
day, that you will work on Saturdays and Sundays or whenever your boss
decides, you will receive starvation wages that will make the month in
one whole and rising cost of living to cover basic needs while your
bosses will get richer and richer on your own backs.

It is now more than obvious that we are faced with a massive reversal of
labor's hard-earned and blood-won conquests of the past. 137 years after
the great strike movements in Chicago that established the 8-hour work
day, with the anarchist movement at the forefront, instead of the class
struggles of the present making more progressive demands for working
conditions, such as the 6-hour 4-day work, we are faced with the rampage
of an ever-escalating restructuring of labor for the benefit of the
bosses and the state, which is indeed proceeding at an inexorable speed.
While the rapid technological and scientific progress and the continuous
upgrading of the productive forces not only allow, but also require the
expansion of conquests in the process of liberating the working class
from its dependence on capital, we see that the devaluation of workers
in the direction of ever greater detachment of surplus value to catapult
the profitability of capital, takes us back historically, forming
medieval working conditions that we must fight.

There is no other way for this condition to be overturned and backfired,
except by resistance from ourselves, the world of work and toil. It is
enough to realize our collective power, not to fall into defeatism and
individualism and not to be reassured in the reality of slavery that is
presented to us as "given" and "self-evident" because "this is how it
is" and "the world does not change". Because we, the working class, we
who produce all the social wealth, are the world of creation and at the
same time the world of destruction of this rotten system that dominates.
So, in the face of this system, of capitalism and the state, which is in
decay and historical decline, the Social Revolution is not a distant
"luxury" option for a better future, but is the only way to survival
itself in the present.

THE DEAD OF CHICAGO DEMAND JUSTICE

CLOSED FROM 8 O'CLOCK, SUNDAY HOLIDAYS AND STRIKES

WE PARTICIPATE IN THE STRIKE OF SEPTEMBER 21

INITIATIVE OF ANARCHIST SAINTS OF ANARCHY - KAMATEROU
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Information tour in Peristeri about the anti-labor bill and tomorrow's
strike
By protaanka in Actions
This afternoon, a group of our members went on an informative tour of
the main streets of Peristeri and shops about the anti-labor bill to be
voted on and tomorrow's strike. As part of the intervention, leaflets
were distributed to employees, patrons and passers-by, while at the same
time thousands of trinkets were thrown and a banner was hung in the
Peristeri metro.
The 8th hour was won with blood
Everyone in the streets
INITIATIVE OF ANARCHIST SAINTS OF ARANGYRO-KAMATERO

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