Solidarity with the struggle of the Teleperformance workers
Employer terrorism will not pass!
Lately, workers in the company “Teleperformance” have been at the forefront of labor mobilizations, resisting both the intensification of state and capitalist aggression against the social base and workforce, and against the employer’s arbitrariness, vindictiveness, and the oppressive conditions resembling a modern-day work camp. Through their struggles, including participation in general and sectoral strikes, they demand the signing of collective agreements, wage increases, and the abolition of the special purpose visa for non-EU migrant workers. On Monday, 23 December, Teleperfomance workers will once again be on strike, denouncing the employers’ campaign of terror, which intensified after the last 48-hour strike on November 19 and 20, 2024.
Teleperformance has adopted a particularly aggressive stance by refusing to renew the contracts of workers involved in union activities, including members of the union’s board, leaving them unemployed since early 2025. At the same time, the company leverages non-renewal of contracts as a means of pressuring other employees by reducing the duration of new contracts, either in retaliation for participating in strikes or to delay the signing of open-ended contracts. Amid this climate of intimidation, the company has also sent an out-of-court letter to the union. It is obvious that Teleperformance, in the face of the dynamic action of the union and the recent mobilizations, seeks to suppress the collective demands of the workers through pressure and fear.
Teleperformance Greece is one of the largest service companies in Greece, a member of a French multinational group with operations in 80 countries and 330,000 employees worldwide. It collaborates with major multinational companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Volkswagen, Facebook, Canon, Netflix, among others. Exploiting employer- friendly legislation, low wage levels, and a special visa regime for third-country nationals, the company has established itself as a management hub for Southern Europe and the Middle-East, employing over 12,000 people in Greece.. Working conditions are defined by an unrelenting flow of calls, a systematic increase in productivity targets, daily performance reviews, constant redundancies, delays in collective bargaining, and low wages, creating a highly stressful environment for employees.
These issues are compounded by a state apparatus that remains loyal to the neoliberal model established in Greece during the memorandum years, which continues to escalate the cost of living. Meanwhile, uninsured and precarious work, flexible working hours, the intensification of work, privatization, and the commodification of basic needs, highlight the capitalist drive to deepen class inequalities.es and devalue lives. Skyrocketing rents have left much of the lower classes struggling to meet basic needs such as housing, and have condemned others to stagnation through eviction from their homes. Workplace “accidents”, the intensification of work, wage reductions, extended working hours, and deteriorating working conditions describe the harsh labor reality that is imposed on us every day, aiming at impoverishing our lives. By October 2024 over 100 labor- related fatalities had occurred, grim evidence of the savage class exploitation within the sweatshops of wage slavery.
Under these conditions, the state capitalist system is accelerating its restructuring, targeting every facet of social life, devaluing essential social needs – work, health, education, housing, and transport. This comprehensive assault on the social base manifests in a constant increase in the prices of basic goods such as fuel, electricity, heating, bread, and oil. The auctioning of primary residences further exacerbates the already unbearable conditions of life and survival of the social base. This situation amounts to a complete degradation of human life, sacrificed on the altar of profit, as evidenced by the widespread strategy of privatization permeating every aspect of social reality.
As anarchists and as workers, we stand in solidarity with the just struggle of the workers in the call centres against labor exploitation, the precariousness regime, and employer terrorism. Against the state and capitalist restructurings of exclusion, subjugation, and repression, the devaluation of our lives, impoverishment, and oppression, against states and bosses that oppress our lives to intensify social and class struggles. In the face of the state and capitalist horrors, only through organizing in workplaces, in workers’ initiatives, through the establishment of enterprise councils and participation in sectoral unions, can we all stand together on the road and in the struggles of social resistance and class solidarity. The only perspective for a society of equality, solidarity, and freedom, without exploitation and oppression, lies in our own hands, in the struggle for social and class emancipation, for anarchy and libertarian communism.
Immediate Fulfillment of Call Center Workers’ Demands
EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE – Health,Education,Food,Housing
AGAINST THE BLACKMAIL OF WAGE SLAVERY
ORGANIZE AND FIGHT IN THE WORKPLACE
Collective for Social Anarchism ” Black and Red”
Member of the Anarchist Political Organisation – Federation of Collectives