LARCO: Commitment to extend employee contracts – “We have 40 days to turn things upside down”

The commitment that her employees’ contracts will be renewed by May 12th took the company’s workers, after their meeting on Thursday afternoon, with government representatives in the finance ministry. “All together today in a frontal conflict with decisions of government, business groups, their mechanisms, we come out victorious,” said Panayiotis Politis, chairman of the LARKO Workers’ Association in Larymna, “They went to drown us, but we don’t give up. We take our heads back from the bottom of the sea and take a breath until May 12th, we have 40 days to bring things up and down. The race will continue until LARCO’s chimney “resuffering” has taken note under intense applause and emotion. Workers of LARKO protested along with their families and other bodies from Sterea to assert their fair demands. Together with the Unions and bodies of Attica who warmly welcomed them shouting that the struggle of LARCO workers is also their struggle. “Today we are here once again, to tell them that the workers of LARKO want work, furnaces – machines to turn on again,” said Panayiotis Politis, chairman of the Workers’ Association at the Larymna factory. “Six decades this is what we have learned to do in fire and iron, mountains and galleries, that is what we know to do: the dust of steel and we will not betray it. We are not going to betray our work because we learned it with diseases, with dead, with blood, with sweat, it is our LARCO” he stressed. Deploring the government’s policy, he denounced that “he allocated 500m euros in four years for the alleged “clearance in operation” to end up today giving the business to a private individual who will take over the role of …older” and does not intend to put the business into operation. As he explained, in the event that contracts of workers ending at the end March will not be renewed, serious consequences and consequences will arise immediately. Among other things, dozens of workers in treatment, through the insurance policy they currently have, will be found hanging. “You have kept us standing, we will not kneel, outside LARCO we will not go out we learned to walk with our heads up, we continue,” he said and welcomed the support of trade unions, bodies, students and students. The students’ letter to the government was read by Assina Liugu, a high school student. “We grew up expecting to learn from others what is going to happen with our lives,” he said, speaking of the anxiety and insecurity that their families face. It was particularly mentioned to the students of the largest classes, who are preparing to take a nationwide exam, but also to all students who do not know whether their school will continue to function, if they will be able to stay at home. “We learned a very important lesson from our parents: To fight,” stressed A.Lugu, stressing that youth is present in the struggle of workers. “We are all here today with the help of yours,” noted Kostas Samaras, president of the Association of the Chair. “We promise you we will not leave the race. It is not only our struggle but all of Greece,” he said. The workers’ struggle was welcomed by Giannis Vervesos, a member of the Student Mining Association. “We know that this crime did not start now,” he noted and went back into the steps of LARCO’s timeless depreciation. “Crime” described the closure of LARKO, a business that gives life to entire areas, Leonidas Grammatics, secretary of the Association Medal of Attica and Shipbuilding Industry Greece. A delegation of the KKE and KO parties attended the rally, as well as delegations of the KOS of Syriza, PASOK-KINAL, New Left, KKE Day25 as well as delegations of the Athens, Piraeus, An. Attica, Lamia, Thebes, Livadia Labor Centers. images: eurokinissi, video: 902.gr