“The truth is that no substantive change will be seen by workers, especially the low -wage.”
In addition to reality and social needs are announcements about minimum wage, According to the SYRIZA who notes that the prime minister is laboring the workers at a time when the salary is not enough for the month to come out.
More specifically, in a statement, the SYRIZA-PSA Labor and Social Security MP and SYRIZA-PS MP George Gavris on the government’s announcements to increase the minimum wage summarizes that the government is trying to change its agenda.
“The truth is, however, that no real change will see the workers, especially the low -paid. It is another mockery of the world of work, while the government has condemned the whole society to prolonged poverty and a downgrading of life.
Thus, while at the cabinet meeting, the prime minister, amid communication triumphants, announced that the minimum wage for the private sector will receive an increase of about 6% (€ 880 gross), this translates to much less than 50 euros a month and concerns about 575,000 employees! And for civil servants, the net increase will be 20 euros monthly!
With the same tax scales, with the same and worse food inflation and the sharp increase in life costs, today’s prime minister’s announcements only raise, if it really has a perception of the reality experienced by employees in the country.
Before Mr Mitsotakis again claims that workers have been prosperous over the last 6 years, let us first answer these details:
Why in Greece today 60% of employees can’t get the month and the salary ends in the early weeks?
Why do 88% of households have to even reduce the market for basic foodstuffs so that they can make it until next month?
Why for 6 out of 10 employees rent and heating costs, waste over 40% of their monthly income?
Why is the purchasing power of the Greeks in the penultimate position of the EU?
How will the 6% increase in the minimum will be able to “reduce” increases of 16.4% in the general price level, 33% in food, and 17% in housing we are experiencing from 2020 onwards?
And also:
Because our country is in the penultimate position of the EU in terms of salaries/GDP ratio, with 35.1%. When in the rest of the EU does this correspond to more than 48%?
Why not 1 in 3 employees does not get overtime, even though it works?
Because only about 26% of Greek workers- below 1 in 3, ie- are covered by collective agreements when the
Europe is asking for 80% and the European average is at 57% right now?
It is now understood that the government has exhausted the endurance of society. There is no room for other mockery and narratives about supposedly success story.
Greek workers are calling for free, free collective bargaining. Restore collective agreements and for the formation of the minimum wage and to increase the average salary. Abolition of all the anti -labor laws of the Mitsotakis government. Immediate application of three years. Restore 13th and 14th salary for the State. “