This is the widespread call to struggle that the trade unions across the country are sounding for 28 February, the day when the private and public sectors will come to a standstill, two years after the crime in Tempe.
On that day, workers in factories, construction sites, shops, restaurants, services, etc. will participate in the strike en masse, together with the self-employed, small craftsmen and tradesmen.
University students will take to the streets together with all the people; pensioners will protest with their children and grandchildren, in a great militant demonstration that will unite those who are experiencing the results of a policy that is plunging the whole country into Tempe-like tragedies.
Under the slogan “Their profits or our lives”, the trade unions, which have been organizing the struggle since the first day of the crime, are taking the lead to insure that there is no cover-up and that the real culprits are held accountable. They are targeting the policies of the governments and the EU, the big business groups and the hunt for profits that expose the peoples to all kinds of dangers. The policies that, in order to protect profitability, treat people’s lives as a cost and every right as an obstacle: from measures to protect people’s lives in workplaces and neighbourhoods, in the means of transport, in universities and schools, to public and free health and education, workers’ rights and so on.
While counting the days for the big strike, the Labour Centres and Federations, hundreds of trade unions and mass organizations call on the workers all over the country to turn their anger into struggle against the real causes of the problems faced by the people and to flood the streets on 28 February.