They denounce the unprovoked attack and the arrest of strikers in Thessaloniki
The brutal repression and unprovoked attack of the MAT against striking workers in Thessaloniki, resulting in their injury and arrest, are condemned by Labor Unions and members of the popular movement.
They accuse the government of responsibility for the attack and their arrest in the mobilization that took place in the port of Thessaloniki, where NATO military equipment is being collected, increasingly involving the country in the imperialist war in Ukraine.
They are required to withdraw all the false accusations leveled against them and to release those arrested.
They condemn, among other things:
Athens Labor Center, Piraeus Labor Center, Lavrio – East Attica Labor Center, Ioannina Labor Center, Zakynthos Labor Center, Kefalonia – Ithaca Labor Center, Larissa Labor Center, North Dodecan Group Labor Center.
Panhellenic Federation of Milk – Food – Beverages, Federation of Associations of Hospital Doctors of Greece (OENGE), Federation of Pharmacos, Federation of Employees of Decentralized Administrations of Greece (OSEADE), NT GREV.
Attica Food – Tourism – Health Trade Union, seafarers’ unions PEMEN, STEFENSON, PEEMAGEN, PEPRN, PES-NAT, Sector of the Attica Finance Association, Association of Drivers, Engineers and Craftsmen PASENT, Union of Employees of Tourism Scientific Enterprises of Thessaloniki – Pieria – Halkidiki, DAS of the Region of Central Macedonia, Union of Employees of “Metaxa” Hospital, PENEN, Union of Drugs of Attica, ILPA Employees Union. Attica Employees Association, ELME Lemnos, A ELME West. Attica, Association of Teachers of Byron – Kaisariani – Pagrati “Roza Imbrioti”, D ELME East Attica, Association of Teachers East Attica “Socrates”, Workers’ Union at Thriasio hospital.
Dairy-Food-Beverages Union of Heraklion, Union of Private Employees – Commercial Employees of the prefecture of Xanthi, Union of Private Employees of Lesvos, Association of Private Employees of Alexandroupolis – Feres Association of tourism professions. Evros, IKA Evros Retirees Association. Union of Private Employees of Komotini, Union of Craftsmen and Energy Workers West. Of Macedonia, Association of Builders and Related Professions of Grevena, Association of Private Employees of Grevena, Builders Union of Kozani.
Association of Commercial Employees and other Private Employees of the Prefecture of Ioannina, Union of Builders and Related Professions of the Prefecture of Ioannina, Association of Food and Tourism Professions of the Prefecture of Ioannina, Association of Pharmacists of the Prefecture of Ioannina – Ioannina Ioannina, Association of Private Teachers of the Prefecture of Ioannina, Association of Pensioners of the IKA of the Prefecture of Ioannina.
They also express their condemnation: Student Coordinating Committees of Athens and Thessaloniki, Student Associations of Athens, scientists and artists.