Workers
return victorious to their work after 165 days of hard class struggle.
The
workers of the Recycling Factory in Heraklion Crete are preparing to
return to their work victorious, after 165 days of hard struggle. For
more than five months, the workers fought for their right to work,
having on their side dozens of trade unions and the people of the
region of Crete, but also all over Greece. The contractor
company “Waste Solution”, which took over the factory last
November, dismissed workers who worked in the “Recycling Factory”
from 5 to 10 years, in order to replace them with “cheaper” ones,
without rights.
The decisive position of workers who struggled as a fist with their trade union and the solidarity of the people of the city, led the company to cancel the layoffs. Specifically, the employer accepted the return of the dismissed workers with the same wages they had in October.