It is obvious that employers will milk any situation to cut costs and increase profits. The horrendous conditions prevailing in Greece today mean that people will try to hold on to their job no matter what, as being paid off means dire poverty and deprivation. Employers are well aware of this and are useing the situation to withhold employees wages, and blame it all on the economic conditions. Of course to continue working under these conditions also means dire poverty and deprivation, but that doesn't matter to the employer, they are doing just fine with the free labour. Our own brand of scum corporate bosses are no different and would love such a situation in this country. However, our millionaire cabal in the Westminster Houses of Hypocrisy and Corruption, are doing their bit to move things along that road. They dress it up with a nice sounding name, "workfare", instead of the employer withholding the wages, our government offers them employees free of charge. And as we all know, the corporate greed beasts are queuing up to garb some of the free slave labour. The system stinks, it is corrupt, exploitative, unjust and only favours the rich.
Greek police raided the Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki this morning, arresting 11 employees who had been part of an ongoing occupation of the Dean's office. The protest has been in response to the refusal of contractors used by the university to pay workers salaries for over three months.Those arrested were released temporarily after their court case was adjourned till Monday.
With lay offs skyrocketing many unscrupulous employers have been using the fear of unemployment to delay or even stop payment of salaries, banking on the fact that people will continue working rather than face certain joblessness.
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