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job layoffs and terrorism at the phone company Cosmote
The mobile phone company Cosmote, a subsidiary of OTE, or of the former state telephone company , when it was privatized, 30% of its shares went into Deutsche Telekom. Cosmote's management decided, suddenly and summary proceedings, laying off 120 workers. In the statement of the Directorate of the company does not exist anywhere in the word "dismissal." It's called "re-organization limited operations, "and is in the form of voluntary redundancy. According to some senior executives, some real dogs of their masters, "separations () ()(!)" withdrawals are made () with full respect for workers (!), With prior consultation and without making use of Cosmote right given by law to about 30 layoffs per month ... These layoffs are a prelude to more layoffs at all the other companies still in the public sector or privatized. addition, with regard to OTE employees, it announced an increase in working hours for all staff, the elimination of subsidies granted by collective agreements and the elimination the transfer of workers by bus to / from the headquarters building of the Company. Work on Sundays and holidays shall be paid according to the new labor law, with a charge of 75% and a free day for every 8 hours on Sundays and public holidays. To date the supplement for 5 hours on Sundays and public holidays 175%.
working conditions are at least Cosmote unworthy and inhuman. Workers are subject to daily monitoring of their performance. In some departments, they have even the few minutes left on their biological needs, and often are advised to suddenly return to their jobs, disrupting your rest, whatever they do at this time due to a sudden increase in the level of work. Also, include the "you" and "you" that they use, on the phone to customers of the Company. All this has a direct impact on the ongoing assessments are given to employees.
When you are exhausted and are written off due to harsh working conditions, have to go through the committees established only in Athens, while the company has offices throughout Greece. The legal medical certificate, which, according to the law serves to sick leave, not enough to Cosmote, because in his logic, there is always the possibility that workers have committed fraud in collaboration with your doctor. Ie they are guilty until proven otherwise. Cosmote
side has shown its true standard for a long time, having hired employees "leased" temporary contract (bimonthly, quarterly). These employees have more than two years working in the company under this scheme, naively expecting at some point be hired by the Cosmote with a decent permanent contract that guarantees at least some basic labor rights (compensation for dismissal etc. .)
By contrast, Cosmote has called 40 employees "leased" two days before the New Year to inform them that they were going to make this 8-month contract with a "small" difference will no longer be working at the center of the city, but in the building of a Private construction company located far from downtown. Of course, the Company again had the solution: "you are going to move in our bus!" Not to mention the increase of two hours a day of moving back and forth to work and that if he misses the bus and will not or do not get to work on time, there will be sanctions.
The deadline given by the Company to its employees to decide whether they sign the contract under the new conditions (a workplace accumulation of many employees that they are all telephone and therefore at peak hours there is an awful noise, breaks limited to half-30 minutes before an 8-hour day and if workload are eliminated-) were a few hours and only after strong protests were given within a day. Since then, they were not given the opportunity to meet the new work environment.
Cosmote is one of the most profitable companies in Europe. The salaries of the employees make up only 9% of their costs (at least this is what is cited in their reports). In 2010, the decline in profits was only 7%, when in which the country is experiencing one of its worst economic crisis in its contemporary history and the international situation is really very negative. For years many of these were identified with the company and her interests. Now feel the harsh reality for the Capital, the employees are not more than a disposable units to make a profit. But even now that Cosmote is profitable, does not hesitate to throw them into the street.
layoffs followed the permanent employees of Cosmote and "union" corporate Workers Federation OTE announced a fictional 24-hour strike on March 8, to calm tensions, Cosmote layoffs and the telephone company articles "Germanos", as well as cuts in subsidies and overtime in OTE. Cosmote workers staged a 48-hour strike on 3 and 4 March. Another 24-hour strike has been called for Friday 18 March.
If workers in Cosmote and everywhere, do not stand in a practical and organized labor to the Middle Ages, future workers will remain perplexed hearing about such concepts as "rights" and "strike." If you do not question and do not cast off the yoke of wage slavery, future generations will live the savage brutality that mankind has ever known.
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Ελευθεριακή Συνδικαλιστική Ένωση - Διεθνείς Σχέσεις
Libertarian Trade Union - International Relations
http://athens.ese-gr.org /
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