The Executive Committee of ADEDY calls on public sector workers to vigorously “attend” the strike and the strike gatherings that will take place on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, throughout the country.

The ADEDY strike gathering in Athens will take place at 11 am in Klathmonos Square.

As ADEDY states in its announcement, “this year, on May 1st, 138 years have passed since the workers’ uprising in Chicago in 1886.

May 1st is a symbol in the struggle of workers around the world for better working conditions. It is a day of remembrance and honor for those who sacrificed, who fought heroically for our conquests.

The struggles of the workers of Chicago, and later, achieved with sacrifices the establishment of the 8-hour day, social security, the defense of maternity, regular leave, trade union rights, Collective Labor Agreements, but also access to social goods, free Health, Education, Culture services.

These conquests of the workers have been targeted by the government of New Democracy, since, with the anti-labor bills it passed in the Parliament, it abolished the 8-hour working day, the Collective Agreements, as well as our right to strike. He privatized supplementary insurance and EFKA and drastically reduced spending on Health and Education, at a time when the pandemic is galloping and we have so far mourned thousands of dead.

It thus dissolves the three pillars of the welfare state: Health, Education, Social Security.

The large strike mobilization of February 28 sent the message to the government that the workers in the country are fighting to demand real increases in their wages and not mock increases like those given for 2024.

The mobilizations of the workers will continue on May Day and with the 24-hour strike on May 21,” ADEDY points out and lists the main demands, which are as follows:

“- Immediate 10% salary increases.

– Restoration here and now of Gifts and in the State.

– Abolition of the 2% unemployment levy.

– Unfreezing the salary scale for the two-year period 2016-2017.

– Tax-free at 12,000 euros.

– Increase and extension of the allowance for dangerous and unhealthy work.

– Recruitment of permanent staff, to cover the thousands of organizational gaps that exist in the State, especially in the fields of Health, Education, Social Security, etc.

– Supporting the NSS with generous funding.

– Repeal of the Hatzidakis Law (L. 4808/21).

– At the same time, we say no to the privatization of public organizations and bodies”.