The head of the country’s private sector union, GSEE, said on Tuesday he is rejecting the demands made by Greece’s creditors on changes in labor laws, following a meeting at the Labor Ministry on the issue.
When asked whether the union’s reply to those demands is “no,” Yiannis Panagopoulos said: “Obviously, and especially in the further dismantling of the collective worker protection framework. But I’ll tell you that our major line of defense — I will not say ‘red lines’, because these terms have now been degraded — is what we agreed with the chair of the ILO in Geneva in 2014.”
He said GSEE tabled its proposals which are the same as the ones agreed with ILO. “GSEE is not asking for special treatment for Greece, but asks that Greece becomes a normal European country when it comes to labor law and collective labor agreements,” Panagopoulos added.
Source: ANA-MPA
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