A-Infos (en) Greece, Workers Counter Bulletin #126 of ESE Athens (gr) [machine translation]

Articles of ERC , Sheet Counter Workers , Working Material Since ERC Athens
We get heatstroke, advertising conditioners , said in a statement distributors from the 
Libertarian Syndicalist Union (ERC) Ioannina. Following is the full text of the SSC 
Ioannina: This is not irony but for everyday working conditions entypodianomis companies 
in Ioannina but also throughout Greece. The bosses of these companies as in any workplace 
trying to make as much profit is made from workus. This succeeded by employees as the most 
inexpensive and productive as possible. ---- The wages in the jobs they moved between 2 
and 3 per hour while distributors walkable from 6 to 8 hours under high temperatures 
without being provided the basics like water and breaks. On external distributions, the 
hours needed for traveling are not considered work, thus timetables to reach the 10-hour 
and 12-hour. Mostly workers in these companies are uninsured while you are insured, the 
contracts will be one day so as not entitled neither permits nor gifts.

Also very common is secured half hours of work, while the other is black. If an employee 
asks his boss when it works, the answer to which will get is "I'll tell you." Thereby 
succeed rotate workers in each distribution in order to have a disposable workforce that 
time not to diekdikisei.I favorite phrase the bosses of small and large are "become more 
productive." "Productive" means to walk endlessly below 50 degrees, loaded with a bunch of 
brochures and do not complain when you're tired. The other will control each time by a 
supervisor or a big brother, so you do not get from your mind to get tired and lounging on 
a couple 5 minute. After all this it is no wonder if someone entypodianomeas suffered 
sunstroke, heat stroke or fainting. Obviously bosses have found governments and the state 
they want, which provide the appropriate loophole in the law so they seem to adhere to. 
For towering wall against the brutality of the bosses and the working condition imposed on 
us, the workers should create nuclei of resistance and challenge in every workplace. The 
working conditions and labor laws will not be changed either by themselves or by 
right-wing or left-wing governments, but only with the struggles of the oppressed. We 
claim: INSURANCE FOR ALL WORKERS WITH CONTRACTS INDEFINITE TIME, THE HOURS OF MATAFORON BE 
CONSIDERED WORKING, YPOCHREOTIKA break AND FREE WATER SUPPLY AND jUICE, stamps Handle AS 
heavy and arduous, INTERRUPTION OF THE TIME EPOPTIAS


For Robin, self-management and solidarity in a global update on the project, the 
Libertarian Syndicalist Union Imathia ref exactly part the following: We regret to throw 
in a text about the evolution of the factory struggle Robin or former employees in 
Papadopoulos-Bottle in Imathia Homeland factory . to say that we participate in solidarity 
with workers from the first moment and who knows people and things always acted with a 
view to meeting merikoteron but their overall initial objective , namely the self-works . 
the this objective was clearly formulated in the formation of of initiatives of solidarity 
, for which there was a clear position that whenever the workers decided to change their 
orientation, the initiative will aftodialyotan . Two separate lines on which the 
initiative was set up was the clear placement of the face of nationalist and fascist ideas 
and the direct-democratic character .


Since the beginning of the effort of the workers of the former factory Papadopoulos - 
Bottle appeared inside the lines the two tendencies . The one was the sense of self as the 
sets the indu and the other in the sense of co-management of the factory with a from the 
two former bosses, the Papadopoulos . from both understand and are two reasonably 
supported by each one of two employees . the remaining employees seemed that waver between 
the two logical , depending on the developments , the internal conflicts and potential 
with the pressures that accepted in everyday their life . We found also that the employees 
with the shape of co-management with the boss talked together of the developments in the 
plant . in fact this is not the imagined or cameos but us in they informed the other 
employees of the factory . in the shape of co-management was also an employee who on 
suspension of the personal of the page and a blog have expressed clear nationalist fascist 
positions and sympathy to the National Socialists of the Golden Dawn . As solidarity and 
solidarity in that the first substantial crisis of the project we asked and we think that 
we took clear positions on the part of workers that do not want the co-management with the 
former boss and that remains vertically against the fascism . it is reasonable that 
workers and the solidarity marched from public the road , which had decided the first with 
several contradictions but and friction in a range issues , which created other times from 
their first and other times by their solidarity . throughout the duration of the effort 
the employees were part of a sub- groupings and allilokatigorountan in corridors for pimp 
, thefts , acts of selfishness , etc . the position we face in them the phenomena was 
clear that everything should be discussed at meeting them and if she decided to informing 
their solidarity to any matter coming into confrontation with the main axes of solidarity: 
the goal of self-management , the antifascist placing them , the direct democracy .

Do not requested - by the side of us at least - to go along at any reasonable fit the 
beliefs us for the struggles that we gave . Instead insisted from the beginning that the 
workers had the same to plan , to decide and to control the decisions of a mind to own 
their beliefs but and the steps that they will be planned in order to enter in production 
. for this and also we not insisted on foolish and barren controversies about the if and 
until you will discuss with operators of everyday domination - municipal factions , mayors 
, political parties , parliamentarians , the church or whatever , what else decide . the 
only you ever we asked was the respect of the axis of solidarity and of course the public 
placement and the updating of initiative of solidarity and of society for all what they 
decided and planned . One of the primary weaknesses of the project that should be solved 
in a short period of time was exactly the empowerment of operation the assembly of workers 
, which will them allow to overcome and the issues improvisation , gossip , blame , etc. , 
and to gather in common the goal . repeatedly some workers pointed to the fact of failure 
their to make assembly , even and the daily debate which we have become accustomed the 
nearest example of BICM for the design and the implementation of decisions them . in fact 
it seemed , and in several of the common assemblies of workers - solidarity which come 
with different placements in seriously for these issues. It is obvious to all and all 
those participating in the horizontal movements us that the weakening and the indifference 
of the assembly leads to strengthening internal hegemony , fatriakon confrontations , 
disorientation , misery and finally the swamp .

A further weakness of former employees Papadopoulos - Bottle was and the incomplete if not 
complete absence of them from workers' and social struggles that took place in the region 
, although many of the institutions of " from below" ( voluntary basis , joints , refugees 
etc ) were from the beginning to flank them . you can say that quite well they built a 
relationship of direct trust with the indu but and with moments of movement of Skouries . 
Positive was and the attitude of the strike concentration of May . However from the own 
our experience , the repeated call to be placed next to the struggles of workers and 
refugees, he found the door of closed . and certainly this the first time it could be 
justified by the lack of organization , orientation , targeting , etc. , but there can be 
justified by a point and then when little by little the project shows to prioritize the 
priorities of . and here we come to the close past and the today . Authorities May the 
employee who talked with the boss withdraws from the project without never to explain 
their reasons , something that made two months after with the recent intervention of the 
list of e- mail of the initiative , using no decision of the Assembly of the meil of Robin 
. a little time after , and one employee even expelled from the assembly of with the 
category of collusion of by the former boss . following from this the case of an even 
employee retires on unclear to us reasons. From the beginning some of June and after, in 
front and in the design of the caravan of solidarity in Athens with indu - Robin , the 
workers of the former factory Papadopoulos - Bottle gradually cease the meetings their 
with the solidarity . So for a so important event that you pressed the government to take 
place towards the demands of the recovered companies are former employees of Papadopoulos 
- Bottle indifferent . not know by how much this the time that they were doing assembly .

If you believe the words themselves, rather there were doing. And there that the few 
remaining workers seem to still determined to proceed the project, we learn that there is 
one underground discussion with consultants business , parliamentarians , local factors 
that triumphalism with the example of IWT . Clone for: the financing of the project , from 
unspecified sources , the change of the relationship with the community and the solidarity 
and the effort of Robin to reach bishops , MPs , MEPs , etc. for the enhancement of the 
public image of , the change of the production of processed wood to manufacture wooden 
small items . the discussion is confirmed also by a from the employees of the plant which 
is now accused of financial irregularities. In repeated attempts us to get back on to 
discuss with their employees , but and to answer the questions us , the answers to them 
are contradictory and ambiguous and show clearly, in the opinion of us, the change of 
attitude their against us . As solidarity - s and insisting on original our attitude , 
there are those who will indicate to their former employees Papadopoulos Bottle-how to 
formulate their struggle. But we understood that was the solidarity and the society in the 
whole of be aware of their own to Robin for all the discussion of , the change of 
targeting them , the individual decisions them .

The sincerity them to us was enough for to redefine the attitude our opposite them . 
Instead of this, continuing a game between the invective which culminates with the meil 
that sent one of the two workers who aspire to co-manage the company with the former boss 
. the meil it denounces two workers for financial irregularities and rewards indirectly 
the role the second worker who called co with the Papadopoulos . in the communication that 
we had with the workers realized the following: the meil not sent with a decision of the 
assembly , sent by this person who continues to be at the meeting and has been accused in 
the past for stealing money , that is back in shape the discussion of co-management with 
the boss , that there is discussion on the implementation of a design type EN . clone . 
and here all the weaknesses of the project back to a level that denies whole the initial 
reciprocal commitment employees - solidarity in the way of self-management and the race.

We felt before proceed to any final assessment of the project to quote one line events 
such as we the experienced all this in time . Since the events can easily be concluded 
that essentially the Robin , as example the recovered business in road of struggle for the 
self , not there . something else has emerged in place of . But we believe also that the 
final word on this to have the same the workers of the plant who have all the right to 
decide about the lives their . as people who see the self-organization of labor and social 
struggles and in self the way of total release us from the shackles of exploitation , 
would like one clear positioning of the workers of the former factory of Papadopoulos - 
canteen in connection with the suspicion that there are around from the attitude to them. 
As employees and workers , as unemployed - ies , as a repressed and oppressed realize that 
every race that comprises means of the issue of survival , starting from one position 
defense . We will respect each place their suffice it to be clear towards us , towards the 
movement of solidarity and throughout the society of " from below" . Let us respect , 
however , and the same that we have all the right to know the what they want to do , and 
that does not have any right to play games with the solidarity , the dignity and the ideas 
of a movement which comes through in the story and in the opinion of our rewrites shyly 
tentative new pages in this .


Successfully held from September 1 to 4 in the first anarcho-syndicalist free camping 
organized by ERC Ioannina .The four days in the Stavrolimenas beach, between Perdika and 
Parga was an opportunity not only to xelampikarisma the modern intensification and to 
knowledge and discussion and intriguing against a system that devours us. Look on the 
website of SSC IOANNINON .


Letter at the National Theatre Administration sent the Workers Association. As denounced 
in the letter: The National Theatre Management wishes and tries in every way, even unfair, 
signing new fixed-term employment contracts with different durations for each of the 
employees (indicatively 90 days 80 days or 50 days) Once that is known to carry out the 
program of the upcoming winter season requires the signature of contracts or at least 
one-year season. Despite the protests and discontent of workers, management exerts 
unprecedented pressure to contract workers of the National Theatre, spreading that wages 
will not be paid for work performed in August 2016, and then will be fired, if not signed 
the proposed contracts fixed time. The employees ask: transparency in the financial and 
administrative decisions, reliable programming work, respect and not demeaning attitudes 
to workers in a precarious relationship work. Throughout the news letter here .


Gathering outside the courts of Halkida on the occasion of the auctioning of chicken 
digest the Airshow held on Monday August 29, the workers affiliated poultry business 
interests "Jury" .With this way employees and business association complained about the 
machinations by which go to auction premises of former company "Bros. Livaditi" Tanagra, 
facilities operated by "Zouras" the last four years. at the same time do not stop to 
assert their fair demands, on the payment of accrued, safeguarding jobs regardless of the 
employer which will operate the facilities, but also the return of the union members in 
jobs close to the positions in which they worked before the bosses announced their 
transfers in Crete and the Mantoudi.


He lost the battle with life after two months of hospitalization, the 45-year, working in 
the municipality of Heraklion , which was swept away by garbage collection while on 
workshop waste. Recall that t the accident had occurred on June 20 and since then 
eventually succumbed to injuries, the 45-year -mitera four children- hospital att yotan in 
the Intensive Care Unit of Hospital Venizelio.


24-hour strike Thursday 1i Septemvri and rally outside the company's shop in Charles Diehl 
Road in Thessaloniki made by employees of the chain supermarkets' Karipidis' (formerly 
'Arvanitidi ") who for months struggling to pay accrued and ensuring jobs. Note, the 
management company s needs workers earned 7-8 months, and the Easter and summer bonuses. 
Thus workers from May are in work retention, and for months, with diverse actions fighting 
against employer arbitrariness.


Work stoppage held Wednesday 31/8 the hospital workers 'Annunciation'. Workers in hospital 
s complaint, the unit for individual contracts and require now paid all accrued. Also 
claiming, in tatheri and permanent work for all, and with massive recruitment of permanent 
staff in all sectors, but also direct funding of the hospital by state budget.


Intervention by the SSC held in Ioannina waiters workers and nteliverades of Kalara and 
Averof Street. Shared anarcho-syndicalism street flyer this time refers to holiday pay and 
rights. The entire form shared HERE .


Interventions against "WHITE" Night in Sparta, made for second consecutive year with the 
excellent cooperation of the local trade association of Mr. "left / communist 'mayor, made 
by self-organized Collegiality Nisafi .


In indirect ktakti General Assembly Working Attitude calls the PA.S.E. WIND tin Thursday 
15 September 2016 3: 00pm at Av. Athens restaurant. The topics to be discussed are: the 
claim of the Collective Agreement, the apolyseis- entatikopoiisi- contractors and n 
indirectly a measure for labor.

Hands of the unemployed and their rights, said in a statement the collectivity 
Active-Unemployed and adds: A few days ago the government announced that pilot turns the 
unemployment allowance to "work bonus". More specifically announced that now instead of 
unemployment allowance will be given the corresponding amount as a subsidy to the company 
to hire him / not every unemployed / h. In other words, not only subsidize the unemployed 
but do not hesitate to give the money from contributions of employees directly to 
enterprises so paving the way for the abolition of unemployment benefit! in fact, the 
Deputy Minister Rania Antonopoulos said that a company will be required to keep the hired 
unemployed after the end of the 12 month subsidized employment ... only 3 months! So we 
now have and "subsidized unemployed" along with all other forms of flexible working and 
part-time / imianergias. And all this to katapolemithei- ypotithetai- unemployment and 
strengthen small and medium-sized enterprises. The statement concludes: As Active 
Unemployed will contribute with all our strength in the struggle for the organization and 
the resistance of the unemployed, the struggle for work and rights. We will continue to 
fight together with all stakeholders, associations, unions, committees neighborhoods, 
popular assemblies and all collectives unemployed workers and youth for the immediate 
relief of the unemployed, to live with dignity!


Finally one news from the international space. On Monday, June 20th a strike broke out at 
the "Krovarzigia" popular Warsaw restaurant serving burgers to vegan people. The strike 
was the final stage of the conflict between workers and employers who took some of the 
recent months. The controversy caused by the changes recently introduced by the company, 
together with the development program tis.Perissoteres information in English you can find 
HERE .
Tags: anarcho-syndicalism , work release , ESE Athens

https://ese.espivblogs.net/2016/09/07/7-9-16/
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HUNDREDS TAKE THE STREETS IN PORTLAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH PRISON STRIKE
Posted on September 10, 2016 - Portland Tags: anarchist black cross, demonstration, IWW, 
March, prison strike, september 9th


As the largest prison strike in modern history took place, groups from around Portland 
came together in the September 9th coalitions. Led by the Incarcerated Workers Organizing 
Committee and Anarchist Black Cross, Black Rose Portland and a host of other organizations 
joined together to take on the regional organizing work to coincide with the nationwide 
strike.

On the 45th anniversary of the Attica uprising, inmates at facilities in 23 states went on 
strike, refusing to go to work or engaging in slowdowns/stoppages. Locally, hundreds of 
protesters came to Chapman Square in the heart of downtown Portland to string together the 
issues of private prisons, commercial exploitation, white supremacy and mass 
incarceration. Groups like the Marilyn Buck Abolition Collective and Black Lives Matter 
PDX discussed the racial nature of the prison system, while Anarchist Black Cross honed in 
on key issues like working conditions, access to healthcare, and physical abuse that 
prisoners regularly face.


After several individuals and organizations spoke, protesters hit the streets with signs 
that targeted the systemic violence faced at the hands of the police. Portland Police 
began harassing protesters early on, trying to confiscate signs and arresting a 
participant before the march even began. Once on the road, protesters moved through the 
city, heading to corporate locations that use prison labor while reaping astronomical 
profits. This included McDonalds, which has been a target of movements like the 
Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee for its use of prisoners for producing frozen 
meat patties.

Outside of the downtown McDonalds location, protesters presented a mock prison cell, 
shedding light on a system that send many to package McDonald's burgers for $0.13 an hour.



Protesters entered and occupied an AT&T location, bringing attention to the use of prison 
labor to run call centers on massive corporate contactors. Those inmates that do work for 
AT&T make only a few cents an hours and are not able to take advantage of normal labor 
laws that workers on the outside depend on.



The police eventually showed up in riot gear and took to a line formation across the 
street. Announcing that protesters had blocked traffic they were ordered to disperse. 
Later, protesters returned to the Justice Center to hold a noise demonstration that can be 
heard by inmates on the inside, a show of solidarity across the double paned glass. They 
were met with a row of riot police who violently pushed them back, forcing them into the 
park. As the demonstration continued, police periodically moved in flash attacks on the 
crowd, shooting pepper spray and picking off specific people that they say had stepped out 
into the road.

Overall, the Portland Police only arrested two participants, though they have been 
tweeting out photos of masked protesters in an attempt to get people to identify them so 
charges can be leveled.



What this action shows more than anything is that a coordinated effort is taking place in 
Portland just as it is happening around the country. Centering with the Incarcerated 
Workers Organizing Committee, a project of the Industrial Workers of the World, groups 
from around the city came together with a vision of a world without prisons. While the 
action was intended to target the injustices of racial profiling, work and living 
conditions for inmates, and the corporate exploitation of slave labor, it was a deeply 
held abolitionist politic that united the radical groups who stood in solidarity. It was 
the desire to rid society of the punitive systems of control that are necessitated by 
global capitalism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and all forms of intersecting 
hierarchy and domination.

Together these reforms are a step in the direction of dismantling these institutions 
altogether, both in the prison yards and in our lives.

This is not the end of the strike, or the end of the movement locally. It is not one 
action that can end mass incarceration or even inspire moderate reforms, but instead the 
coordinated long-term organizing inmates and their supporters. We are continuing forward 
to build on that abolitionist vision, to support workers organizing inside of prisons, and 
to continue to drive at the root causes of systemic exploitation.

We stand in solidarity with all incarcerated workers!

http://www.blackrosefed.org/hundreds-take-streets-portland-solidarity-prison-strike/
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