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"Madam President, terrorism against workers with the support of repressive state mechanisms is now a standard approach in the slave workplace. Thousands of workers are being made redundant and workers’ fundamental labour and social rights are being cut to fit to the Procrustean bed.
One typical example is in the United Kingdom, where it has been discovered that a private company is collecting information about workers’ trade union, social and political activities and selling it to companies. In Greece the labour disputes to have laid-off workers reinstated has been labelled illegal and abusive.
The workers are obviously determined to defend their rights and have adopted as their standard the words of the 22-year-old worker Nikos Nikopoulos in his open letter to the public prosecutor to the Supreme Court of Appeal in Greece, in which he says, among other things:
‘There are certain things in this life for me which cannot be bought or sold. I prefer my wage to be my inalienable right, to claim the riches which I produce and which belong to me. My intransigent refusal to be bribed or terrorised has caused me to be dismissed for a second time. I received direct threats against my life and the life of my family.’
This statement truly illustrates the will of and the path being taken by the workers."@en1
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