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From: Todd Jailer <to...@hesperian.org>
Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:19 AM
Subject: [phmusa] Greece: Occupied Hospital Now Under Workers' Control
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Occupied Hospital Now Under Workers' Control
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By Health workers in Kilkis, Greece
Source: Libcom.org via ZNet
Monday, February 06, 2012
Health workers in Kilkis, Greece, have occupied their local hospital
and have issued a statement saying it is now fully under workers
control.
The general hospital of Kilkis in Greece is now under workers control.
The workers at the hospital have declared that the long-lasting
problems of the National Health System (ESY) cannot be resolved.
The workers have responded to the regime’s acceleration of fascism by
occupying the hospital and outing it under direct and complete control
by the workers. All decisions will be made by a ‘workers general
assembly’.
The hospital has stated that. “The government is not acquitted of its
financial responsibilities, and if their demands are not met, they
will turn to the local and wider community for support in every
possible way to save the hospital defend free public healthcare, to
overthrow the government and every neo-liberal policy.”
From the 6th February, hospital workers will only deal with
emergencies until their wages, and monies owed have been paid. They
are also demanding a return to wage levels prior to the implementation
of austerity measures.
The next general assembly will take place on the 13th, and a related
press conference will be given on the 15th.
The following statement has been issued by the workers:
1. We recognize that the current and enduring problems of Ε.Σ.Υ (the
national health system) and related organizations cannot be solved
with specific and isolated demands or demands serving our special
interests, since these problems are a product of a more general
anti-popular governmental policy and of the bold global neoliberalism.
2. We recognize, as well, that by insisting in the promotion of that
kind of demands we essentially participate in the game of the ruthless
authority. That authority which, in order to face its enemy - i.e. the
people- weakened and fragmented, wishes to prevent the creation of a
universal labour and popular front on a national and global level with
common interests and demands against the social impoverishment that
the authority's policies bring.
3. For this reason, we place our special interests inside a general
framework of political and economic demands that are posed by a huge
portion of the Greek people that today is under the most brutal
capitalist attack; demands that in order to be fruitful must be
promoted until the end in cooperation with the middle and lower
classes of our society.
4. The only way to achieve this is to question, in action, not only
its political legitimacy, but also the legality of the arbitrary
authoritarian and anti-popular power and hierarchy which is moving
towards totalitarianism with accelerating pace.
5. The workers at the General Hospital of Kilkis answer to this
totalitarianism with democracy. We occupy the public hospital and put
it under our direct and absolute control. The Γ.N. of Kilkis will
henceforth be self-governed and the only legitimate means of
administrative decision making will be the General Assembly of its
workers.
6. The government is not released of its economic obligations of
staffing and supplying the hospital, but if they continue to ignore
these obligations, we will be forced to inform the public of this and
ask the local government but most importantly the society to support
us in any way possible for: (a) the survival of our hospital (b) the
overall support of the right for public and free healthcare (c) the
overthrow, through a common popular struggle, of the current
government and any other neoliberal policy, no matter where it comes
from (d) a deep and substantial democratization, that is, one that
will have society, rather than a third party, responsible for making
decisions for its own future.
7. The labour union of the Γ.N. of Kilkis will begin, from 6 February,
the retention of work, serving only emergency incidents in our
hospital until the complete payment for the hours worked, and the rise
of our income to the levels it was before the arrival of the troika
(EU-ECB-IMF). Meanwhile, knowing fully well what our social mission
and moral obligations are, we will protect the health of the citizens
that come to the hospital by providing free healthcare to those in
need, accommodating and calling the government to finally accept its
responsibilities, overcoming even in the last minute its immoderate
social ruthlessness.
8. We decide that a new general assembly will take place, on Monday 13
February in the assembly hall of the new building of the hospital at
11 am, in order to decide the procedures that are needed to
efficiently implement the occupation of the administrative services
and to successfully realise the self-governance of the hospital, which
will start from that day. The general assemblies will take place daily
and will be the paramount instrument for decision making regarding the
employees and the operation of the hospital.
We ask for the solidarity of the people and workers from all fields,
the collaboration of all workers' unions and progressive
organizations, as well as the support from any media organization that
chooses to tell the truth. We are determined to continue until the
traitors that sell out our country and our people leave. It's either
them or us!
The above decisions will be made public through a news conference to
which all the Mass Media (local and national) will be invited on
Wednesday 15/2/2012 at 12.30. Our daily assemblies begin on 13
February. We will inform the citizens about every important event
taking place in our hospital by means of news releases and
conferences. Furthermore, we will use any means available to publicise
these events in order to make this mobilization successful.
We call
a) Our fellow citizens to show solidarity to our effort,
b) Every unfairly treated citizen of our country in contestation and
opposition, with actions, against his'/her's oppressors,
c) Our fellow workers from other hospitals to make similar decisions,
d) the employees in other fields of the public and private sector and
the participants in labour and progressive organizations to act
likewise, in order to help our mobilization take the form of a
universal labour and popular resistance and uprising, until our final
victory against the economic and political elite that today oppresses
our country and the whole world.
--
Todd Jailer, managing editor
Hesperian Health Guides
Knowledge for action.
Action for health.
to...@hesperian.org
www.hesperian.org
1919 Addison Street, Suite 304
Berkeley, California 94704
tel: (510) 845-1447 x 229
fax: (510) 845-0539
From: Todd Jailer <to...@hesperian.org>
Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:19 AM
Subject: [phmusa] Greece: Occupied Hospital Now Under Workers' Control
To: phm...@lists.riseup.net
Occupied Hospital Now Under Workers' Control
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
By Health workers in Kilkis, Greece
Source: Libcom.org via ZNet
Monday, February 06, 2012
Health workers in Kilkis, Greece, have occupied their local hospital
and have issued a statement saying it is now fully under workers
control.
The general hospital of Kilkis in Greece is now under workers control.
The workers at the hospital have declared that the long-lasting
problems of the National Health System (ESY) cannot be resolved.
The workers have responded to the regime’s acceleration of fascism by
occupying the hospital and outing it under direct and complete control
by the workers. All decisions will be made by a ‘workers general
assembly’.
The hospital has stated that. “The government is not acquitted of its
financial responsibilities, and if their demands are not met, they
will turn to the local and wider community for support in every
possible way to save the hospital defend free public healthcare, to
overthrow the government and every neo-liberal policy.”
From the 6th February, hospital workers will only deal with
emergencies until their wages, and monies owed have been paid. They
are also demanding a return to wage levels prior to the implementation
of austerity measures.
The next general assembly will take place on the 13th, and a related
press conference will be given on the 15th.
The following statement has been issued by the workers:
1. We recognize that the current and enduring problems of Ε.Σ.Υ (the
national health system) and related organizations cannot be solved
with specific and isolated demands or demands serving our special
interests, since these problems are a product of a more general
anti-popular governmental policy and of the bold global neoliberalism.
2. We recognize, as well, that by insisting in the promotion of that
kind of demands we essentially participate in the game of the ruthless
authority. That authority which, in order to face its enemy - i.e. the
people- weakened and fragmented, wishes to prevent the creation of a
universal labour and popular front on a national and global level with
common interests and demands against the social impoverishment that
the authority's policies bring.
3. For this reason, we place our special interests inside a general
framework of political and economic demands that are posed by a huge
portion of the Greek people that today is under the most brutal
capitalist attack; demands that in order to be fruitful must be
promoted until the end in cooperation with the middle and lower
classes of our society.
4. The only way to achieve this is to question, in action, not only
its political legitimacy, but also the legality of the arbitrary
authoritarian and anti-popular power and hierarchy which is moving
towards totalitarianism with accelerating pace.
5. The workers at the General Hospital of Kilkis answer to this
totalitarianism with democracy. We occupy the public hospital and put
it under our direct and absolute control. The Γ.N. of Kilkis will
henceforth be self-governed and the only legitimate means of
administrative decision making will be the General Assembly of its
workers.
6. The government is not released of its economic obligations of
staffing and supplying the hospital, but if they continue to ignore
these obligations, we will be forced to inform the public of this and
ask the local government but most importantly the society to support
us in any way possible for: (a) the survival of our hospital (b) the
overall support of the right for public and free healthcare (c) the
overthrow, through a common popular struggle, of the current
government and any other neoliberal policy, no matter where it comes
from (d) a deep and substantial democratization, that is, one that
will have society, rather than a third party, responsible for making
decisions for its own future.
7. The labour union of the Γ.N. of Kilkis will begin, from 6 February,
the retention of work, serving only emergency incidents in our
hospital until the complete payment for the hours worked, and the rise
of our income to the levels it was before the arrival of the troika
(EU-ECB-IMF). Meanwhile, knowing fully well what our social mission
and moral obligations are, we will protect the health of the citizens
that come to the hospital by providing free healthcare to those in
need, accommodating and calling the government to finally accept its
responsibilities, overcoming even in the last minute its immoderate
social ruthlessness.
8. We decide that a new general assembly will take place, on Monday 13
February in the assembly hall of the new building of the hospital at
11 am, in order to decide the procedures that are needed to
efficiently implement the occupation of the administrative services
and to successfully realise the self-governance of the hospital, which
will start from that day. The general assemblies will take place daily
and will be the paramount instrument for decision making regarding the
employees and the operation of the hospital.
We ask for the solidarity of the people and workers from all fields,
the collaboration of all workers' unions and progressive
organizations, as well as the support from any media organization that
chooses to tell the truth. We are determined to continue until the
traitors that sell out our country and our people leave. It's either
them or us!
The above decisions will be made public through a news conference to
which all the Mass Media (local and national) will be invited on
Wednesday 15/2/2012 at 12.30. Our daily assemblies begin on 13
February. We will inform the citizens about every important event
taking place in our hospital by means of news releases and
conferences. Furthermore, we will use any means available to publicise
these events in order to make this mobilization successful.
We call
a) Our fellow citizens to show solidarity to our effort,
b) Every unfairly treated citizen of our country in contestation and
opposition, with actions, against his'/her's oppressors,
c) Our fellow workers from other hospitals to make similar decisions,
d) the employees in other fields of the public and private sector and
the participants in labour and progressive organizations to act
likewise, in order to help our mobilization take the form of a
universal labour and popular resistance and uprising, until our final
victory against the economic and political elite that today oppresses
our country and the whole world.
--
Todd Jailer, managing editor
Hesperian Health Guides
Knowledge for action.
Action for health.
to...@hesperian.org
www.hesperian.org
1919 Addison Street, Suite 304
Berkeley, California 94704
tel: (510) 845-1447 x 229
fax: (510) 845-0539
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