The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the European group of the
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today gave its full backing to the
Greek journalists' union (J.U.A.D.N, J.U.M.-TH.D.N,
P.F.J.U, E.S.P.I.T) for their participation in the 24-hour strike organised by the General
Confederation of Greek Workers.
"As the country is going through a terrible financial and economic crisis,
Greek journalists and media workers are put under pressure, but they should not
suffer from a situation which they are not responsible for," said EFJ
President Arne König. "All over Europe we see social standards attacked in the
name of the crisis, but unions will oppose this and fight
for justice and for the
truth: we do not accept that workers should be
made scapegoats of the financial
crisis".
The EFJ says that its Greek members have legitimate reasons to strike
and deserve solidarity from their European colleagues. Greek
Journalists call for stable and full employment relations instead of increasingly
unsecure working conditions; social security rights, health care and welfare
instead of the wholesale privatisation and the decline of social benefits; collective
agreements in the media sector instead of individual contracts.
This strike is the latest of many industrial actions held over the past
three years by the trade union movement to demand genuine social dialogue and
the guarantee of autonomous social security schemes.
Messages of solidarity to the striking journalists and the unions can be
sent to the following address: [email protected]; [email protected]
For
more information contact the EFJ at +32 2 235 2215
The EFJ represents over 250,000 journalists in
over 30 countries worldwide