The KKE continues to insist on highlighting the real problems faced by workers, noted Dimitris Koutsoumbas, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE, as he opened his speech in Parliament on 18 May during the debate on the KKE’s Urgent Interpellation regarding the implementation of health and safety measures to protect workers’ lives in the workplace.
As he stressed, this undeclared war escalates every year, with workers as its sole victims, while business groups continue to enjoy their highest profits in decades. In the same year, the net profits of publicly listed companies reached 12.1 billion euros.
The GS of the CC of the KKE denounced the main causes behind the rise in employer and government crimes in the workplace: the intensification and exploitation of workers, the dismantling of fixed daily working hours, and the extension of the working life to the age of 74 for certain categories of workers. In other words, it is the intensification of exploitation is being combined with inadequate health and safety measures and the weakening of oversight mechanisms. He criticized the government for introducing the 13-hour working day, pointing out that most workplace accidents occur towards the end of shifts and affect workers over the age of 65.
