Attention
Infection from new coronavirus (COVID-19)
FREQUENT QUESTIONS
How serious are the consequences of the state management of infections caused by 2019-nCoV?
Infections caused from 2019-nCoV are severe, especially for elderly above 70 and patients with long-term conditions (hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, hepatic or respiratory diseases) as a result of the tragic condition of the public health system, because of long-term implementation of harsh austerity measures, labour depreciation and decrease of workforce.
Equally serious are the effects on employees in:
Hospitals, super-markets, delivery services and call-centres
as they are forced to work at health devastating hectic pace,extremely long hours,
without adequate means of protection from the virus and all too often without even the possibility of taking sick leave (even when they show clinical signs of the corona virus disease!)
The impact on hundreds of thousands of workers on the private sector is terrible, too: even since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, faced with falling turnover, the bosses strongly requested from the government to let them close their businesses, not to pay wages and social security contributions. As a consequence, hundreds of thousands of workers were deprived of their wages and, for the time being, the Easter bonus as well. Instead, they will be given a lousy bonus of 800 euros for 45 days (or 535 per month), well below even the existing minimum wages which are certainly joke wages. All this happens just because the bosses don’t want to foot the bill but wish to speed up the deep restructuring of the labour market: ”emergency wages and labour contracts” are here to stay!
RECOMMENDATION:
Instead of getting ourselves locked up in our houses in a passive manner,
And despite the curfew,while taking the necessary precaution measures, we could organize proletarian groups of mutual help and psychological support in our neighbourhoods to help those most vulnerable fellow men and women and therefore decrease the risk of their exposure to the virus. No one should be left alone, no one should be left alone in this pandemic of panic and fear!
We demand together with the workers burdened the most at this moment (in hospitals, super-markets etc.):
Immediate hiring of staff, no overtime
Wage rise to all
Regular days-off and work leaves
Supply of protection means and safe work conditions
We organize local assemblies of workers and unemployed and we bring our ideas and struggles together:
Full social wage to all
Easter bonus now
No proletarian houses auctions
Suspension of rent and bill payments
Abolition of all immigrant workers’ detention centres,
Decongestion of Prisons
No more curfews and quarantines!
We want to enjoy the sunshine at last!
Patients infected with the virus of class-strugglitis CLWAR-20