SETIP salutes the thousands of call center employees in Athens, Thessaloniki, Chania and other cities of Greece who massively participated in the strike of Teleperformance, Webhelp, TTEC and Foundever and filled the ranks of the union banners in all protests. We salute all colleagues who met for the first time today during the strike. Who all this time were isolated and alone in the four walls of their homes.
Our central demonstration in Athens held in front of the Greek Parliament was very vivid and made our demands widely known and showed our determination that enough is enough, we want pay rises and our living and working rights met now! We demand a collective labour agreement, we demand immediate abolition of the disgraceful “special purpose” visa.
We convey our fraternal appreciation to the dozens of solidarity messages we received from Greek, foreign and international trade union organizations that empowered our struggle.
In many departments especially, of Teleperformance and Webhelp, the strikers were the majority! In some departments more than 80% joined the strike, some language departments stopped working 100% especially French, Polish, Portuguese. In Chania Building the Participation of the employees was 95%. Lines were closed in many projects, in some departments the last remaining Supervisors were forced to take the calls, the ACMs were calling colleagues on sick leave to login. SETIP received today dozens of registration forms of new members and as a fact we invite everyone who is an employee of call centers to get in contact with our union and join its ranks.
This historic day for the telecommunication sector in Greece shows us one thing: Multinational Giants, who treat us as numbers and replaceable “expenses”, can come to their knees when they face the united and class- oriented front of determined workers. We are the ones who give life to the buildings, wear the headsets, take tickets! Workers are the ones who produce the wealth of the world in the mines, in the factories, in the essential industries. We are the ones who are being exploited day after day and cannot survive the month! Without us there are no profits!
We keep our arms and hearts open to those colleagues who, due to misinformation, confusion, severe intimidation by the management even disbelief of how massive the strike would be, did not make the step to participate to the strike today. Colleagues, we want you by our side tomorrow!
A bailiff mandated by SETIP is handing over to all 4 companies a clear demand for them to sit at the negotiation table within a given framework. Our strike had a unified spirit that this day was Round One of our struggle and we are only starting our movement. We will not back down!
We call every one of you to join us at the Open Meeting on Sunday, 11 th February in the Labor Center of Piraeus at 16:00, to discuss openly and democratically and suggest our next steps.
SETIP salutes the thousands of call center employees in Athens, Thessaloniki, Chania and other cities of Greece who massively participated in the strike of Teleperformance, Webhelp, TTEC and Foundever and filled the ranks of the union banners in all protests. We salute all colleagues who met for the first time today during the strike. Who all this time were isolated and alone in the four walls of their homes.
Our central demonstration in Athens held in front of the Greek Parliament was very vivid and made our demands widely known and showed our determination that enough is enough, we want pay rises and our living and working rights met now! We demand a collective labour agreement, we demand immediate abolition of the disgraceful “special purpose” visa.
We convey our fraternal appreciation to the dozens of solidarity messages we received from Greek, foreign and international trade union organizations that empowered our struggle.
In many departments especially, of Teleperformance and Webhelp, the strikers were the majority! In some departments more than 80% joined the strike, some language departments stopped working 100% especially French, Polish, Portuguese. In Chania Building the Participation of the employees was 95%. Lines were closed in many projects, in some departments the last remaining Supervisors were forced to take the calls, the ACMs were calling colleagues on sick leave to login. SETIP received today dozens of registration forms of new members and as a fact we invite everyone who is an employee of call centers to get in contact with our union and join its ranks.
This historic day for the telecommunication sector in Greece shows us one thing: Multinational Giants, who treat us as numbers and replaceable “expenses”, can come to their knees when they face the united and class- oriented front of determined workers. We are the ones who give life to the buildings, wear the headsets, take tickets! Workers are the ones who produce the wealth of the world in the mines, in the factories, in the essential industries. We are the ones who are being exploited day after day and cannot survive the month! Without us there are no profits!
We keep our arms and hearts open to those colleagues who, due to misinformation, confusion, severe intimidation by the management even disbelief of how massive the strike would be, did not make the step to participate to the strike today. Colleagues, we want you by our side tomorrow!
A bailiff mandated by SETIP is handing over to all 4 companies a clear demand for them to sit at the negotiation table within a given framework. Our strike had a unified spirit that this day was Round One of our struggle and we are only starting our movement. We will not back down!
We call every one of you to join us at the Open Meeting on Sunday, 11 th February in the Labor Center of Piraeus at 16:00, to discuss openly and democratically and suggest our next steps.