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Report from TUI (pensioners and Retirees) Britain

03 Monday Jul 2017

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Report of Activity during 2017 from Pensioners and Retirees in Britain to Quim Boix, Secretary, TUI(P and R).

This year of 2017 for Pensioners and Retirees in Britain has so far been one of struggle. Britain; similar to other European and Worldwide countries continues to suffer from the attacks of the ongoing crisis of Capitalism and its attempt to offload the crisis to workers and Retired peoples.
Following the result of the Referendum of the British people to leave the European Union in 2016, continuing attacks on are being attempted to deny that democratic decision. Cuts to Pensions, Housing, Education, Social Care to name a few of hard won rights are being attempted.
The Conservative Government in May decided to call a quick General Election, due to opinion poles and the recent election results in parts of Europe and elsewhere, thinking “the time was right” to increase its majority in Parliament to facilitate further draconian cuts. The Political Opposition of the British Labour Party during 2015/2016 had suffered losses and divisions, caused mainly by its members of Parliament refusing to accept the overwhelming rank-and-file membership to elect a progressive Leader, so the Government took advantage of this also and called a snap election, and published a draconian manifesto attacking Workers and Pensioners alike. The response from Trade Unions and Pensioners, and also young people was immediate. The Labour Party in turn published a progressive manifesto calling for better housing, improved Pensions, abolition of Student University Fees, the end of Privatisation of Transport, Energy, A new Social Care Consultation Programme, The abolition of Anti-Trade Union legislation etc. The mobilisation of the Trade Unions, Students, the Unemployed and Pensioners and Retired People around this manifesto successfully prevented the Conservative Government obtaining its attempt to make the people pay for the crisis of Capitalism.
The struggle is not yet won of course, but there is a new air of optimism to carry on that struggle. Unity is Strength.

US Unit of TUI (P and R) demands Full Pension Protection

03 Monday Apr 2017

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TUI(P&R) unit of United States has demanded the government to safeguard and protect the pension of retirees. Details are given below:

“Stop the ‘Ripoff’ of Pensioners and Retirees: Full pension protection from a fully funded Federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC): no loopholes. Stop State reductions in Pensions and benefits such as are occurring in the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS).   Elevate the Social Security Administration’s wage/salary “cap” on wage deductions to $1million. Tax on Social Security Administration wage benefits should start at $750,000 and up. Maintain and expand the largely working class federal and state health programs of Medicare and Medicaid. Begin a yearly reduction in Medicare eligibility to full coverage for all.”

Pensioners are in struggle to safeguard and protect their rights. They want to live a decent life for which they have worked for three- four decades.

The Grand March against unemployment concluded with a big rally in Athens, Greece

13 Wednesday Apr 2016

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The Grand March against unemployment Concluded with a big rally in Athens, Greece

The Grand March against unemployment in Greece which started last week, April 3, reached Athens yesterday, Sunday, April 10, where it was welcomed by the working class and the people of Athens with a large gathering and Concert organized by the Athens class unions and the National Union of Musicians.

Solidarity in March expressed a number of trade unions from around the world.

The March was a great success.

Conference of Greek Pensioners – General Secretary TUI (P and R) attends

21 Wednesday Oct 2015

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Quim Boix, General Secretary TUI(P and R) addresses the Conference of Greece Pensioners

WFTU present at the 21st Congress of Greek Pensioners

20 Oct 2015
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Τhe World Federation of Trade Unions was represented in the 21st Congress of Greek Pensioners by Valentin Pacho Quispe, WFTU Deputy General Secretary and Quim Boix,  General Secretary of TUI Pensioners. Both delegates addressed the Congress.

WFTU oppose the close co-rdination of Govt. of Greece with Israel

01 Saturday Aug 2015

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the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) has expressed its strong reservation and protest against the intensification of co-operation between Greece and Israel. An expert from the statement is reproduced below:

“The WFTU considers the intensification of the cooperation between Greece and Israel not only dangerous for the Palestinian people who are daily suffering from the Israeli Occupation. This co-operation is dangerous for the general peace around the Mediterranean Sea. Mediterranean Sea is threatened by this new development. This is part of the  imperialist plan  for Higher share from the exploitation of the wealth-producing resources.

The military relationship of Greece with Israel not only undermines the Palestinian People and the  people of Lebanon, of Syria, of the whole North Africa and Promotes the studs of the Imperialists for the so called New Middle East.

The WFTU demands  the Greek Government to vote in the Greek Parliament the recognition of the Palestinian State with East Jerusalem as capital as per the borders of 1967 to denounce the Israeli Occupation  and to end the military cooperation and the training jointly with Israel.

Also, the WFTU demands the cancellation of the plan of Offering of a Greek Island to NATO, to use as wide military base.”

 

New Attempt to Silence the Action of the Class Trade Unions in Greece

31 Friday Jul 2015

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A report from TUI(P and T), WFTU, on the New Attempt to Silence the Action of the Class Trade Unions in Greece is reproduced below:

The Executive Secretariat of PAME denounces the Mayor and the Municipal Authorities of
Kalamata (city in the Southern Greece) for demanding PAME to pay a fine of almost 1000€!
The infringement they accuse PAME of, is “creating pollution by using banners” to call to
demonstrations against the new, brutal Memorandum of SYRIZA and the anti workers’
measures that destroy our lives!
The absolute silence they demand; the attempts to create obstacles in people’s mobilization
only prove that they are with the side of the capitalists.
PAME, its forces, are not intimidated, are not subjugated! Steadfast, militantly they stand
against the capital, the EU and their servants in every level. Central, regional or municipal.
We return your fine back at you! Send it to the capitalists and the Government!
We call the working class of Kalamata, the self employed, the small farmers and especially the
youth, in spite of our differences, to rally with PAME, the social alliance and strengthen it. To
strengthen our common action against those who want to destroy us, the European Union, the
monopolies, their political parties, and their servants, like the Municipal Authorities of Kalamata.
They support the old and New Memoranda, the anti workers policies, the extreme taxation to
the people. They support our pauperization with wage cuts, pension cuts, rise of retirement age
to 67 years, to 72.
We call you to demand the recover of our losses, our contemporary needs, to strengthen
solidarity. No one to be alone in the crisis
THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT PAME

The pensioners on the path of struggle in Greece

03 Friday Apr 2015

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The pensioners on the path of struggle in Greece

Thousands of pensioners, in rallies and mobilizations in over 20 cities, who had responded to the call of the pensioners’ organizations, demonstrated yesterday and demanded the payment of the Easter bonus to everyone, the restoration of pensions and rights to pre-crisis levels and the abolition of the anti-people laws. They also demanded exclusively public and free healthcare and medical cover.

At the meeting the delegation of the pensioners had at the Ministry of Labour, the deputy minister of Social Security, Dimitris Stratoulis, merely repeated the position of the government regarding the return of the Christmas bonus to the poorest pensioners, without answering the demand for the immediate return of the Easter bonus. He also repeated that the government will not further reduce the pensions. So, in essence, the SYRIZA-ANEL government refused to make any commitment in relation to the just demands of the pensioners.

Dimos Koumpouris, president of the Pensioners’ Federation and member of the CC of the KKE, speaking to the demonstrators, stressed that the issue is not merely for the pensions not to be further reduced, as the pensioners today can no longer deal with their problems. He called on the pensioners to be vigilant, as the government’s negotiations with the lenders are being carried out with the same rationale as the previous government had. He underlined that the pensioners will continue to fight to recover what has been taken from them and prioritize the issues of pensions and healthcare

Meeting of Telecommunications’ Trade Unions from Europe

17 Tuesday Mar 2015

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Meeting of Telecommunications’ Trade Unions from Europe

PRESS RELEASE
Meeting of Telecommunications’ Trade Unions from Europe On Saturday, March 14, took place at the Headquarters of PAME in Athens a meeting of trade union organisations from Telecommunications to discuss the coordination of the workers in the sector against the multinationals.
In the meeting which was hosted by PAME participated the trade union organisations USB from Italy,PEO from Cyprus and CoBas from Spain. The organisations agreed that it is necessary for the fighting trade unions of Europe to coordinate their action in a sector that is dominated by the monopolies, with hundreds of thousands of workers, who are, in majority, working as modern slaves, especially in the huge call centers. At the same time the delegations highlighted issues such as privatizations, the destructive role of the employers’ trade unionism and the persecutions against militant workers.
The organisations agreed in a series of initiatives, with main goal the need to organise a big meeting of the fighting trade unions in telecommunications, IT and call centers, which can be a step for common action. The delegations also talked about the need to open the discussion within the workers and the trade unions for Telecommunications that will not belong to business groups, but they will be property of the people and will guarantee cheap and quality access to the commodity of communication to all people, while at the same time will provide full-time, steady jobs, with full rights to the workers

Greece Workers Protest Against Pension Cuts

11 Thursday Dec 2014

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Pensioners’ Unions Action Day in Athens, Greece

Pensioners’ Unions organised an Action Day on
Wednesday, December 10th, 2015  demanding restoration of
pensions that were cut by the government in the last year.
They organised protests outside government building and
in Athens. They organised a demonstration in front of the
Ministry of Finance with live concert and food.
Their demands are:
• Abolish now all antilabour laws
• Restoration of all cuts that were made in pensions.
• Restoration of 13th and 14th pension (Christmas and holiday’s pension)
• Immediate payment of all pensions.
• Restoration of programs of social tourism and balneotherapy.
• Free public healthcare.
(Report Received from Quim Boix, General Secretaryu, TUI (P and R), WFTU