‘Enough with being in defense, it’s time to click into counterattack mode’ says Tsipras
File photo: Alexis Tsipras had also a meeting with the European Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni and discussed the importance of the Recovery and Resilience Facility Photo via ANA-MPA
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“Enough with being in defense, it’s time to click into counterattack mode,” said SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Alexis Tsipras on Saturday, at a meeting with workers in vulnerable professions.
Slamming the government’s labor bill, soon to be debated and voted in parliament during an upcoming plenary session, the main opposition party leader said that when the ” ‘next day’ comes, reforms must be carried out for workers’ protection, with radical changes.”
“Not only will everything that this government has voted for be reversed, but we’ll move in the direction of abolishing the so-called ‘renting’ of workers,” he noted, in reference to short-term individual contracts, among other situations.
A suitably pro-labor direction for a government to take will be “less work for the same pay, no more work for the same or less.”
Tsipras said that “the vast majority of citizens are against the bill which brings complete deregulation of labor relations,” adding that “government propaganda on the issue of the labor bill has stagnated, since 80pct of citizens are negative about the changes it is trying to impose.”
According to SYRIZA sources, the employees who met with Tsipras described the harsh reality they experience as 3-month contract workers, or even as single-day workers. They complained that in the same work some are permanent staff and others work on two-month contracts, while some are paid 400 euros and others 900 euros for rather similar tasks.