“There can be no development without work and work cannot be enjoyed by the benefits of growth,” said SYRIZA-PS President Socrates Famellos during his meeting with the Federation of Tourism and Food.
Addressing employees’ representatives, he said: “You are representing an industry that has open issues such as job insecurity, elasticity in employment, seasonality and of course the major problem of unemployment benefit. On the one hand, we say that tourism in Greece is the environment and its people, but the people of tourism are unemployed for a very long time. We cannot remain as a country in the limited and inadequate measure of the unemployment allowance. ” He also underlined the importance of restoring collective agreements so that employees have better salaries.
“If we have better tourism services, better feeding services and better pay to employees, it will be in the overall interest of the Greek economy,” he said even talking about the need to extend the time for tourism workers.
He expressed his strong opposition to the labor bill promoted by the government by saying: “The 13 -hour attempt by Mr Mitsotakis and Mrs Kerameos is a middle age. It is slavery for workers. We are talking about workers who will leave at night and return night. And they will not know what awaits them the next night, because a two -day contract can be waiting for them … We are calling for the withdrawal of this anti -labor bill and society must claim that Greece does not go back so many years. ” He went on to point out: “Instead of talking about 35 hours today with better pay, workers with work all year long, we go back. This is the roller coach that Mr. Mitsotakis had promised, because all he wants to support is the surplus of the cartels. “
The meeting was attended by the President of the Federation, George Hodzoglou, the Secretary General Fotis Skaltas, the Deputy Secretary General Michalis Moutafis and the member of the Administration Panagiotis Pravetianos.
On behalf of SYRIZA-PS, the meeting was attended by the secretary of K. Stergios Kalpakis, the Department of Labor George Gavrilos, the Tourism Tourism Chief Kalliopi Veta, the members of the Political Secretariat Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou
Source: Skai
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