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Greece:Interview with Union President Nikos Photopoulos

January 9, 2012 in News

Interview with NIKOS PHOTOPOULOS, President of the GENOP-DEH union of workers of the Greek national electricity company, who is to be sentenced on the 10th of January, 2012, along with 14 of his comrades Interview conducted in Athens, December 1st, by the ILC International Newsletter Q: Facing the heavy prison sentence that you are faced with, shouldn't we plan to undertake a broad campaign in Read more [...]
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Greece:Stop the prosecution of Nikos Photopoulos and his comrades from the GENOP-DEH union immediately!

January 9, 2012 in News

Fifteen union leaders and rank-and-file member of the GENOP-DEH will appear in court on January 10, 2012. They face up to five years in prison without parole for expressing their opposition to the policies of the Troika (IMF, European Union, and European Central Bank) and for actively demonstrating their solidarity with the Greek people, who refuse by any and all means necessary to pay for a crisis Read more [...]
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ATNC Joint Day of Action – Hong Kong protest at Korean and Philippines Consulates

December 6, 2011 in Campaign

Today in Hong Kong we conducted the ATNC Joint Day of Action against trade union repression in Asia - focusing on the South Korean Consulate and the Philippines Consulate. In the South Korean Consulate where we went first, the Consulate office was shut down, security gate pulled down...but Consul-General Jun came out to listen to us. We spoke about the shame of an ILO and OECD member so systematic Read more [...]