Ideological obsession is employers persisting in arbitrariness and covering up of undeclared work

Statement by AKEL C.C. Spokesperson Stefanos Stefanou on the cuts in the funding of the labour inspection service

AKEL C.C. Press Office, 13th December 2019, Nicosia

DISY characterizes the existence of controls to fight undeclared and illegal work as AKEL’s “ideological obsession”. We could reverse the characterisation. Ideological obsession is employers persisting in arbitrariness and covering up of undeclared work at the work place.

Is this what DISY and the parties DIKO, EDEK, Solidarity and ELAM want who cut the funding for the Inspection Service?

And since, according to DISY, AKEL is “ideologically obsessed”, what does it have to say about the fierce reaction of all the trade union organisations? Does DISY then consider the trade unions also “ideologically driven”?

Is protecting labour and working people’s rights “ideological obsession”?

It is well-known that DISY stands unreservedly on the side of employers and is indifferent to working people and wage earners. But what about the other political parties that supported DISY’s position in this unacceptable action – what do they have to say to working people?

France: WFTU Solidarity with the general strike on December 5

The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), the only international expression of the class-oriented trade union movement and representing 97 million workers in 130 countries around the world, expresses its warmest support and internationalist solidarity with the general strike of December 5 in France.

The working class of France, after the call of the CGT France, will take the streets and stop production, claiming its contemporary needs, against the recipes of capital, the bourgeois government of Macron and the European Union.

The main sectors of the country will participate in the class-oriented mobilizations, especially transport, commerce and services, education, energy, public services, refineries, agri-food industry, the waste collection and treatment sector, the automobile industry, hospitals, firefighters, ports and  media among others.

While the mobilizations of the last period showed that bourgeois power can bleed, now the workers of France can further strengthen the resistance of the peoples of Europe against the anti-labor measures promoted in every corner of the continent, paralyzing and blocking production.

The WFTU commits itself to continue steadily on the side of the working class of France, supporting its just struggles, for the end of capitalist exploitation.

We call on all workers in France, regardless of their union affiliation, to participate in the December 5 strike and ignore the calls of the ETUC bureaucratic nomenclature which is aligned with the European bourgeois class.

Dear colleagues, hold fast !

All united in the struggle !

The WFTU Secretariat

WFTU announcement on International Day of Persons with Disabilities

On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the World Federation of Trade Unions expresses its solidarity with people with special needs and supports their demands for free and public healthcare, for employment and life with rights and dignity.

Worldwide, people with disabilities face health problems, lower participation in education and higher rates of unemployment and poverty. They suffer barriers to access to health, education, transport services. These difficulties are exacerbated in the poor population or in developing countries, where disability rates are higher than in developed countries, since poverty can lead to the emergence of health conditions associated with disability, such as low birth weight, malnutrition, lack of clean water or adequate hygiene, unsafe work and injuries.

The world militant trade union movement calls upon all workers to strengthen our struggle for the improvement of living conditions of the persons with disabilities and demands:

• Access to free, public and high quality health and rehabilitation services for people with disabilities
• Adequate free state services and infrastructure for their daily care, moving and communicating
• Health and safety measures for all workers at the workplaces and especially for persons with disabilities
• Employment for all persons with disabilities who are able to work under state responsibility
• Benefits and pensions that can assure them a dignified life

Τhe Secretariat