The President of SYRIZA PS, Alexis Tsipras, launched a harsh attack on the government for its choices and the regime of impunity at work, during the meeting it had with the Tourism-Food Federation, at the party’s offices in Koumoundourou.
Mr Tsipras spoke of a “terrible shortage” of workers in tourism and in all sectors, as “the work landscape has been created with complete impunity in the last three years”.
Mr. Tsipras underlined that specific policies are needed “that will make work attractive again but will also form a framework of decent work and livelihood”.
At the same time, he noted that he hears from everywhere that there are no employees “and my question is: how to find employees when you consider that the most important factor of production is expendable?”.
In addition, he stressed that “when you consider that employees are expendable and you put them to work with any conditions and any earnings, without an institutional framework without controls, then you shoot your feet, you shoot the feet of the economy and society because you create conditions of social crisis.” .
“If we do not understand that you can not have productivity with conditions of impunity, then the economy will not move forward in any sector,” said the leader of the opposition, stressing that has to do with the fact that in the last three years a complete impunity has been created in the work landscape and when the young person, in any industry, knows that he will find much better working conditions and much better wages abroad, he will not stay to work here “.
“We are looking to find now ‘what the Greeks have and do not want to work'”, he commented, noting that “Greeks have nothing and do not want to work” and that “their standard of living and wages are anyway low “.
He noted that “we must pay special attention to the tourism sector which is and will be one of the most productive sectors of the Greek economy” to emphasize that “we must invest in human resources, to invest in its education, in its working conditions, in his remuneration “.
He stressed that the issue of wages is very critical “which in any case we believe that in all sectors should go to 800 euros, because at the moment any increases are lower than inflation and wages in Greece are lower level than it was twelve years ago, before 2010 “.
He further added that they will make work attractive again but also create a framework of decent work and livelihood “.
On his part, the President of the Tourism – Food Federation, Mr. George Hotzoglou He said that “the problems are very important” and stressed that the CEO of a large Swedish agency that brings about 160,000 Swedes a year to Chania visited Crete “and said that what he has seen in the last two months is that the tourism product due to lack of staff “.
“Imagine that in a five-star hotel restaurant where 220 hotel guests had lunch, there were 4 waiters. One waiter for 55 customers,” said Mr. Hotzoglou.
Finally, he added that in major tourist destinations, such as Mykonos, Santorini and Paros, if an employee has a problem there are no labor inspection offices and he has to go to Syros. “The answer I got from the government is that we do not have courts here on these islands, will we have SEPE?” he said.
Source: Capital
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