Dynamic and symbolic intervention was made today by newspaper employees Dawn and the radio station In the redin the closed Peristeri, where the third day continues the SYRIZA-PS Congress.
The workers, who have been unpaid for months, were initially gathered out of the room, but the tension was triggered when a member of the party responded with the phrase: “SYRIZA does not owe you, you owe it.”
A massive entry of the protests in the conference was followed, with slogans such as:
“Bring back the accruals”, “unpaid work, owing wages, brought the breakdown to red and dawn.”
Their intervention lasted about an hour, interrupting the flow of work and causing embarrassment to party executives.
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Giannis Androulidakis and Nikos Morfonios, representatives of his employees Red and her Dawn Accordingly, they took the floor and asked the conference to formally support their fair demands:
The immediate payment of accruals, the maintenance of the media open and with a political physiognomy of left, social and kinematic identity.
Androulidakis officially denied that wages have been paid since December, while Morfonius clearly raised the need for a “political decision” that would ensure the viability of SYRIZA’s media and the dignity of their employees.
A conference with many shadows
The intervention came to be added to a conference that is being held in a climate of uncertainty and introversion for the next day of the party. The image of workers shouting about the obvious at the center of SYRIZA’s political dialogue is a loud rift between the party and the tools of his communication.
The conference’s attitude towards workers’ demands will ultimately be a crucial credibility test – not only to the party executives and members, but also to the society waiting for the left to be in practice with the worker, and not just in words.