WORLD WORLDWIDE GREECE ATHENS - news journal UPDATE - (en) Greece, Land & Freedom - Athens - Rally against retaliatory layoffs at Documento (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On Thursday, October 8, the lawsuits of the two dismissed employees of Documento, which they had filed after their vindictive and abusive dismissals by their employer, Kostas Vaxevanis, are expected to be heard. In fact, the dismissal of the 8-year employee and former union representative was accompanied by an unseemly slanderous attack on his person, where the employer set up an entire conspiracy aimed at his moral and professional extermination, in order to hide the vindictive nature of his dismissal due to his union activity. Just 24 hours later, his colleague, who works at the journalistic site "Pandora's Box", a website of the Documento Media group, was also dismissed because she "dared" to defend him against the conspiracy set up against him by the employer. These latest incidents are added to a long list of dismissals at Documento (five in just the last year), which express Vaxevanis's punitiveness and vindictiveness. He does not hesitate to resort to any means against employees who resist employer blackmail and demand better wages and decent working conditions, against those who stand by their colleagues, fighting collectively against employer unscrupulousness and terrorism. His efforts were fruitless, since the decision issued by the Single-Member Court of First Instance of Athens in September 2025 declared the terminations of the

contracts of the first three colleagues invalid, due to their union action and the solidarity they showed towards their dismissed colleagues. Thus, the Court recognized the employer's vindictiveness towards the participation of employees in union and collective procedures within the workplace and the plan of Documento's publisher, Kostas Vaxevanis, to "get rid" of employees he did not like within a short period of time - through lies, slander and attempted moral and professional extermination - because they resisted his anti-labor practices and demanded better working conditions was fully exposed.
Recently, the continuous escalating attack of the State and the bosses on the social base has been demonstrated, which has as a prerequisite the crushing of any social and class resistance, wherever it is attempted to manifest itself, as demonstrated by the latest labor restructurings which criminalize labor mobilizations, union action and strikes. A characteristic of the entire aforementioned situation is of course the attempt to suppress - both administratively and criminally - any labor mobilization, with the dismissals of workers who participate in strike mobilizations or even corresponding disciplinary prosecutions of thousands of striking teachers. At the same time, the liberalization of layoffs, the daily intimidation and threat of unemployment, the expansion of forms of work with reduced rights (such as the one with a block) and the intensification of working conditions are the weapons that the state has offered to the bosses' quiver for the further exploitation of workers. All these "deviations" that have been officially legislated in the last decades of continuous restructuring, come to seal the bleeding and exhaustion of society, its murder on the altar of the bosses' profit.
Within this context, the exploited and the oppressed continue to pay with our blood for the maintenance and reproduction of the barbaric exploitative oppressive system that oppresses, murders and impoverishes. Against employer terrorism, state and capitalist restructurings of exclusion, subjugation and repression, the devaluation of our lives, impoverishment and oppression, against states and bosses who oppress our lives, let us intensify social and class struggles. Let us all stand together on the path and struggles of social resistance and class solidarity. The only perspective for a society of equality, solidarity and freedom, without exploitation and oppression, lies in our own hands, in the struggle for social and class emancipation.

We support the solidarity rally on Thursday, October 8, at 08:45, at the
former Athens Magistrates' Court (Loukareos), Room 1.

DIRECT JUSTICE FOR THE LAYED
OFF AT DOCUMENTO AGAINST EMPLOYEE TERRORISM, SOLIDARITY IS
OUR WEAPON!

Anarchist Assembly for Social and Class Emancipation

https://landandfreedom.gr/el/agones/2338-athina-sygkentrosi-enantia-stis-ekdikitikes-apolyseis-sto-documento
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Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca