A-Infos (en) Greece, Thessaloniki Freedom Initiative: Interventions of AUTh. with colors in 4 OTE / COSMOTE stores. [machine translation]

4 simultaneous solidarity interventions to the employees by throwing paints took 
place in the early hours of Friday 15/1 in OTE / COSMOTE / Germanos branches. 
More specifically, in the COSMOTE store in Papafi 130 in K. Toumpa, in the 
Germanos store in 33 East Romylia & A. Papandreou in Naples, in the COSMOTE store 
in Lagada 201 and in the COSMOTE store in Ethn. Resistance 14. ---- The business 
expansion of OTE and Cosmote's bosses brings redundancies, slashed salaries and 
severed labor rights. ---- Today we are going through a period of rapid and 
continuous reorganization and change in the world capitalist formation and 
division of labor. In the context of the current structural crisis of capitalism, 
the manifestation of which is exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, the 
rescue, reproduction and profitable reconstruction of capital is carried out, in 
addition to state aid and grants for large capital, through increased capital 
transfers. and bosses' expenses in the world of work. The state management of the 
pandemic is the occasion and the opportunity provided by the government in the 
form of class assistance to the capitalists, in order to proceed unhindered to 
the radical reform of labor relations in the direction of the abolition of 
acquired labor rights.

At a time when the broad social majority is sinking even deeper into poverty and 
misery, unable to meet basic daily needs due to the existing class devaluation, 
many of the usurpers of socially produced wealth, sections of the economic elite, 
continue their unbridled profitability. always to the detriment of their 
employees. One such case, among many others, is Cosmote, the subsidiary of OTE, 
ie the majority stake (46.9%) owned by the German multinational company Deutsche 
Telekom. OTE records daily net profits of 1,500,000 euros. It is the most 
profitable company in Greece. The president and CEO of OTE, Michalis Tsamaz, 
receives an annual salary of 1,600,000 euros, an amount equivalent to salary 5.

For months now, the management of OTE, in order to increase the profits of its 
shareholders, has been launching a new business plan, which consists in the 
creation of three subsidiaries to which 80% of those currently working in the 
specific telecommunications group will be transferred after separation. . We are 
talking about a total of 5,500 first-line employees. The shareholders of OTE 
decided, therefore, to proceed in the near future to the spin-off of the Customer 
Service, Stores and Field Technical Services branches of the company, which will 
be absorbed respectively by Cosmote e-Value, to which the entire service 
department will be transferred and support of the group, Germanos, which will 
include the Germanos and Cosmote branch network and Cosmote Technical Services (CTS),

Let us see, then, what these moves planned by the employers of OTE and Cosmote on 
the orders of their German parent company, Deutsche Telekom, will bring to the 
employees. From the very first moment, in consultations with working fathers, the 
employer made it clear that those employees who are transferred to the new 
subsidiaries will have neither a Youth Account, nor a Mutual Fund, nor will they 
be included in the Cosmote pension program. After the next corresponding 
consultation, the employees were informed that they will lose the lump sum, they 
will be insured with IKA, while in the process the individual employment 
contracts started. The new work reality posed by the employer, entails increased 
insecurity for the employees of the group that are going to be transferred to the 
new subsidiaries, because they can go bankrupt, close or be sold at any time, 
causing employees to lose their jobs. This tactic was applied by Deutsche Telekom 
in Romania, when it sent thousands of its employees to a subsidiary, which it 
sold as a loss-maker within three years to Ericson, leaving half of its employees 
unemployed. The employer, in fact, tries to play the employees, promising that 
during their transition to the subsidiaries, the acquis secured by the SSE will 
be maintained, but it expires in October! In addition, it is known that the 
General Staff Regulations, the Transfer Regulation, nor the disciplinary law and 
specific payroll apply to the subsidiaries, while the employment contracts will 
be individual. close or be sold, resulting in employees losing their jobs. This 
tactic was applied by Deutsche Telekom in Romania, when it sent thousands of its 
employees to a subsidiary, which it sold as a loss-maker within three years to 
Ericson, leaving half of its employees unemployed. The employer, in fact, tries 
to play the employees, promising that during their transition to the 
subsidiaries, the acquis secured by the SSE will be maintained, but it expires in 
October! In addition, it is known that the General Staff Regulations, the 
Transfer Regulation, nor the disciplinary law and specific payroll apply to the 
subsidiaries, while the employment contracts will be individual. close or be 
sold, resulting in employees losing their jobs. This tactic was applied by 
Deutsche Telekom in Romania, when it sent thousands of its employees to a 
subsidiary, which it sold as a loss-maker within three years to Ericson, leaving 
half of its employees unemployed. The employer, in fact, tries to play the 
employees, promising that during their transition to the subsidiaries, the acquis 
secured by the SSE will be maintained, but it expires in October! In addition, it 
is known that the General Staff Regulations, the Transfer Regulation, nor the 
disciplinary law and specific payroll apply to the subsidiaries, while the 
employment contracts will be individual. This tactic was applied by Deutsche 
Telekom in Romania, when it sent thousands of its employees to a subsidiary, 
which it sold as a loss-maker within three years to Ericson, leaving half of its 
employees unemployed. The employer, in fact, tries to play the employees, 
promising that during their transition to the subsidiaries, the acquis secured by 
the SSE will be maintained, but it expires in October! In addition, it is known 
that the General Staff Regulations, the Transfer Regulation, nor the disciplinary 
law and specific payroll apply to the subsidiaries, while the employment 
contracts will be individual. This tactic was applied by Deutsche Telekom in 
Romania, when it sent thousands of its employees to a subsidiary, which it sold 
as a loss-maker within three years to Ericson, leaving half of its employees 
unemployed. The employer, in fact, tries to play the employees, promising that 
during their transition to the subsidiaries, the acquis secured by the SSE will 
be maintained, but it expires in October! In addition, it is known that the 
General Staff Regulations, the Transfer Regulation, nor the disciplinary law and 
specific payroll apply to the subsidiaries, while the employment contracts will 
be individual. resulting in half the workers becoming unemployed. The employer, 
in fact, tries to play the employees, promising that during their transition to 
the subsidiaries, the acquis secured by the SSE will be maintained, but it 
expires in October! In addition, it is known that the General Staff Regulations, 
the Transfer Regulation, nor the disciplinary law and specific payroll apply to 
the subsidiaries, while the employment contracts will be individual. resulting in 
half of the workers becoming unemployed. The employer, in fact, tries to play the 
employees, promising that during their transition to the subsidiaries, the acquis 
secured by the SSE will be maintained, but it expires in October! In addition, it 
is known that the General Staff Regulations, the Transfer Regulation, nor the 
disciplinary law and specific payroll apply to the subsidiaries, while the 
employment contracts will be individual.

The employers of OTE and Cosmote want to make every sacrifice to implement their 
business plan, which is why they intensify their impartiality towards the 
employees, whom they systematically persecute, blackmail and threaten, in order 
to bow down and accept the strategic planning of the company or to resign under 
the weight of pressure and persecution for meager compensation. In many cases, 
employees are forced to resign, as the company forces them to move from the 
province to Athens, causing problems in their daily lives and their families. 
Many employees complain that they have been called to fabricated disciplinary 
councils, where their final dismissal is announced with non-existent accusations, 
many times without even having the right to go to these councils. Some workers on 
sick leave were also laid off. At the same time, the employees' lawyers complain 
that the disciplinary meetings are held without allowing the entry of the lawyer, 
the disciplinary defendant and / or the defense witness, under the pretext of 
protection measures, which are not respected even by the employer. That is why 
the employees complain that the group's employers act with government backs and 
government policy coverage, as they are indifferent to the implementation and 
observance of the prescribed legal framework, as well as to health measures, 
labor rights, mental and physical health of company employees. Many OTE and 
Cosmote employees have suffered heart attacks during this time, some have died, 
an employee of the group tried to commit suicide in Thessaloniki, while another 
employee was hanged in the office where he worked! By firing the old employees, 
the management of OTE and Cosmote will be able to staff the three subsidiaries 
under creation with a new and cheaper workforce that will have even fewer labor 
rights, thus protecting and increasing their profits.

In the modern telecommunications scams of OTE and Cosmote, the working and 
material reality for the employees is lifeless, while their future is extremely 
precarious and uncertain. The responsibility for the deterioration of working 
conditions, the undermining of living standards, suicides and illnesses of 
employees as a result of the material and psychological pressure that they suffer 
daily, weighs exclusively on the employer of the group, which annihilates them 
daily with the policy that follows, which is solely based on maximizing the 
profit of its shareholders. The arbitrariness and impunity of the employers of 
OTE and Cosmote do not reach the public discourse. These companies offer huge 
sums for advertising in the urban press and the state media. Everything has its 
costs for their bosses and businesses. After all, as a rule, they monopolize the 
news and its flow.

We, as part of the working class and anarchists, support the militant class 
mobilizations of the workers in OTE and Cosmote, as we stood in solidarity with 
them, respectively, when a few months ago they went on a long strike demanding 
collective bargaining, salary increases and the removal of redundancies. The 
organization of workers in class unions and workers 'initiatives, away from the 
employers' and bureaucratic unions that give consent to all anti-labor 
arrangements and are pillars and accomplices of the bosses, is a necessary 
condition for defending their interests and claiming their rights. in the attacks 
launched by their bosses and political personnel against them. The power of the 
workers lies in the realization of their class interests as diametrically opposed 
to those of the bosses, in the organization of their solidarity and struggle for 
the satisfaction of their immediate material needs. The strength of the workers 
is their class mobilization and solidarity, in contrast to the unbridled 
competition, individualization and slavery that their bosses try to instill in 
them, in order to divide and isolate them, so that they do not become dangerous 
and demand meeting their requests and needs. This collective power which is in 
the hands of those who move the cogs of production today with their work, is the 
same which is called upon to carry out the work of universal social and class 
emancipation,

NO CLEAR OTE employees AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES AS, COSMOTE
INSTANT RECALL ALL redundancies HAVE BECOME AS NOW

NO WAY EMPLOYEE TO NEW SUBSIDIARY OF OTE IN harmful CHANGE OF REMUNERATION, THE 
LABOR CONDITIONS AND THE RIGHTS OF

WITHDRAWAL OF disciplinary proceedings, DIRECT PAUSE extortion, threats and 
AFTHAIRESIAS EACH OF ERGODOSIAS LIABLE TO ERGAZOMENYOS

ORGANIZATION AND STRUGGLE IN AREAS OF WORK, THE ERGODOSIAS break the TSAMPOUKAS

The cLASS SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON

Thessaloniki Freedom Initiative (member of the Anarchist Federation)
e-mail contact: lib_thess@hotmail.com
blog: https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com

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