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Trade Unions In Greece
Trade unions in Greece include: *GSEE *ADEDY *Kasapi Union * PAMEGreek Trade Union of Cleaners and Housekeepers Trade unionists in Greece Well-known trade unionists in Greece include: * *Deborah Carlos Valencia
Deborah Carlos-Valencia (born ) sometimes written as Deborah Valencia) is a Filipinos, Filipino social worker, Feminism, feminist, founder of the Kasapi Union, and co-founder of the Melissa Network, an organization that brings together leaders of ...
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Trade Union
A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits (such as holiday, health care, and retirement), improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting the integrity of their trade through the increased bargaining power wielded by solidarity among workers. Trade unions typically fund their head office and legal team functions through regularly imposed fees called ''union dues''. The delegate staff of the trade union representation in the workforce are usually made up of workplace volunteers who are often appointed by members in democratic elections. The trade union, through an elected leadership and bargaining committee, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the Geography of Greece, mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, featuring List of islands of Greece, thousands of islands. The country consists of nine Geographic regions of Greece, traditional geographic regions, and has a population of approximately 10.4 million. Athens is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras. Greece is considered the cradle of Western culture, Western civilization, being the birthplace of Athenian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GSEE
The General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE), in Greek Γ.Σ.Ε.Ε, is the highest, tertiary trade union body in Greece. It was founded in 1918 and is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation. GSEE is made up of 83 worker unions and 74 departmental secondary confederations. Its primary purpose is defending the interests of all private sector workers in Greece. To that purpose, it negotiates with the employer unions the signing of national union labour agreements and also has the ability to call all workers of the private sector on strike in case the need arises. GSEE has established a number of supporting institutes. INE/GSEE-ADEDY is tasked with the provision of GSEE and ADEDY, the equivalent of GSEE in the public sector, of formulated scientific data reports which GSEE and ADEDY use for the scientific validations of their argumentation when dealing with the employers. KE.PE.A is tasked with the provision of information and legal advice to all workers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ADEDY
The Confederation of Greek Civil Servants' Trade Unions ( el, Ανώτατη Διοίκηση Ενώσεων Δημοσίων Υπαλλήλων, (Α.Δ.Ε.Δ.Υ), translit=Anótati Dioíkisi Enóseon Dimosíon Ypallílon, ADEDY), was established in May of 1926 under the name Civil Servants' Confederation. Banned under the Metaxas regime, it began organizing covertly against the regime, as well as the subsequent Nazi Occupation during the Second World War. Officially reorganized after the Greek Civil War, ADEDY is a federation of public sector trade unions in Greece affiliated with the European Trade Union Confederation. ADEDY's private sector sister union is the General Confederation of Greek Workers. ADEDY is non-partisan, and as such, not affiliated with any political party. Its leadership council is made up of figures from the conservative New Democracy, socialist SYRIZA, social democratic PASOK, the Communist Party of Greece, as well as the anti-capitalist ANT.AR.SY.A. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasapi Union
The Kasapi Union of Filipino Migrant Workers in Greece (Greek: Kasapi Hellas) is a Greek trade union founded in 1986. It advocates for worker's rights and provide social support to Filipino migrants in Greece. History Kasapi Union was founded in 1986 by Deborah Carlos Valencia, her husband Joe Valencia, and other Filipino refugees to Greece, who had fled Ferdinand Marcos. During the 1980s, Kasapi Union launched a political advocacy campaign to increase rights for second-generation Filipinos in Greece. The same decade it launched a campaign to include domestic workers in the International Labour Organization's Convention on Domestic Workers, achieving success in 2011. In 1998, the organisation held a worker's solidarity event at Panteion University. In the mid-1990s the union launched a campaign to enable migrants workers to become legal workers. Activities and membership The organisation provides social support to people who became unemployed, runs childcare, provides lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All-Workers Militant Front
The All-Workers Militant Front ( el, Πανεργατικό Αγωνιστικό Μέτωπο, ΠΑΜΕ, ''Panergatiko Agonistiko Metopo'', PAME) is a coordination centre within the Greek trade union movement, founded on the initiative of Communist Party of Greece trade-unionists in April 1999. Among its members are unionists coming from different political backgrounds. Founding members were also cadres of DIKKI and others. PAME is critical of the official positions and leadership of the General Confederation of Greek Workers. According to its website, the trade unions that are affiliated in PAME have 415,000 members in total as of 2005. As of June 2012, according to the Communist Party of Greece, PAME affiliated unions have 850,000 members. In November 2016 PAME held its 4th National Congress with 1200 national delegates representing 13 National Federations 14 Labour Centres 451 trade unions 52 Workers' Committees. PAME is internationally affiliated with the World Federation of Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantina Kouneva
Konstantina Kouneva ( el, Κωνσταντίνα Κούνεβα, born 28 September 1964), also known as Kostadinka Kuneva ( bg, Костадинка Кунева), is a Bulgarian immigrant in Greece, trade unionist and secretary of the Greek Trade Union of Cleaners and Housekeepers. She was elected as an MEP in the 2014 European Parliament elections. Attack and reactions Kouneva was working as a cleaner for the IKOMET company (providing services to ISAP, among other clients, through outsourcing). On the night of 23 December 2008, and while on her way home from work (Kouneva had repeatedly requested a shift in the morning hours, but was always denied), she was attacked by unknown assailants with sulfuric acid (vitriol), leaving her face horribly disfigured, and resulting in the loss of sight in one of her eyes. Kouneva was also reportedly forced to swallow a portion of the acid, something which completely destroyed her esophagus and heavily damaged other internal organs. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Carlos Valencia
Deborah Carlos-Valencia (born ) sometimes written as Deborah Valencia) is a Filipinos, Filipino social worker, Feminism, feminist, founder of the Kasapi Union, and co-founder of the Melissa Network, an organization that brings together leaders of the established migrant community in Greece. Personal life Carlos-Valencia is a Filipinos, Filipino Feminism, feminist and community leader who fled the Philippines to Greece during the Martial law under Ferdinand Marcos, Marco dictatorship in 1985. Her husband Joe and son followed her to Greece some years later. She was aged 70 in 2019. Life in Philippines A Trade union, trade-unionist and a social worker, Carlos-Valencia had to flee the Philippines after she and her husband became involved in Workers' resistance against the Marcos dictatorship. Life in Greece After arrival in Greece, Carlos-Valencia co-founded the Melissa Network in Athens in 2014 with Nadina Christopoulo. The organization serves the needs of migrant women in G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
