Wednesday, February 4, 2015

PAME: Greek Worker Solidarity for Turkish Workers

PAME supports the struggle of the Turkish Metal Workers 

PAME, which represents the class-oriented trade union movement of Greece, condemns the Turkish Government, which satisfies the demands of the industrialists by prohibiting the strike of the metalworkers who fight for the signing of a Collective Contract with better wages. 

On Wednesday, February 4 the trade union of the Metal Workers Birlesik Metal-Is is organizing a big protest demonstration defending the right of the workers to go on strike. Based on the principles of Internationalist Solidarity, PAME will join the demonstration with a delegation that will travel to Turkey. At the same time PAME will organise protests outside the Turkish Consulates in Greece 

We demand: 

Revoking of the Turkish government's decision to ban the strike 

Satisfaction of the demands of the metalworkers for signing collective agreements with better wages.

PAME Hellas, translation emended by Lenin Reloaded.
PAME condemns the prohibition of the metalworkers strike by the Turkish Government 

PAME, which represents the class-oriented trade union movement of Greece, condemns the Turkish Government, which satisfies the demands of the industrialists by prohibiting the strike of the metalworkers who fight for the signing of a Collective Contract with better wages. 

While thousands of metalworkers had gone on strike in 19 factories from January 29 and were preparing the escalation of the strike in other 18 factories in the coming days, the Turkish Government, provocatively serving the interests of industrialists, proceeded to ban the strike utilizing a law that followed the 1980 junta, through which the government can suspend for two months a strike when there are reasons of “national security”! 

Under the same logic, the Greek governments often tried to block strikes. The common component has always been the intention to serve the interests of the capitalists, re-baptized as “national interests”. In this direction, the metalworkers in Greece, the steel workers, the maritime workers, the teachers, even the employees in supermarkets, are dragged every day in courts because they fight for their rights. 

For the workers, “national interest” is the ability to feed their families, to live decently, to go to work in the morning and to return alive at night in their homes. Life has shown that the national interests of the industrialists and their governments are very different from the interests of the workers and the peoples of each country. 

The class-conscious workers movement of Greece denounces the authoritarianism of the Turkish Government and will express its solidarity with the metalworkers Turkey in many ways. The answer to the industrialists'-government attack will be the international workers’ solidarity, the strengthening of the struggle in Turkey and in every country for workers’ rights. 

We demand: 

Revoking of the Turkish government's decision to ban the strike 

Satisfaction of the demands of the metalworkers for signing collective agreements with better wages 

PAME Hellas, translation emended by Lenin Reloaded

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