{"id":1099,"date":"2019-08-27T13:48:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T13:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurof-wftu.org.cy\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2021-03-31T10:28:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T10:28:58","slug":"statement-by-wftu-general-secretary-george-mavrikos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurof-wftu.eu\/?p=1099","title":{"rendered":"Statement by WFTU General Secretary George Mavrikos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Macron, a champion of authoritarianism and anti-labor measures<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the International Class Trade Union Movement, we express our solidarity with all the workers of France who are suffering from the anti-worker attacks of the French Government.<\/p>\n<p>We are all close to Amar Lagha Secretary General of the Federation CGT Trade and Services and a trade union cadre of the World Federation of Trade Unions.<\/p>\n<p>Amar has done only his duty; with courage, he has supported the struggle of CONFORAMA&#8217;s workers. This is how the militant trade unionists must act; without being afraid of the bourgeoisie and the governments of the bourgeoisie.<\/p>\n<p>We call upon the government of France and the employers to stop the intimidation against Amar.<\/p>\n<p>If, on September 2nd which is the day when Amar Lagha is scheduled to appear at the Commissariat, they support the complaints against him, they will find us all united against them; and we openly say:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Macron, champion of the authoritarianism and anti-worker policies, your intimidations against trade unionists will be gone with the wind&#8230;\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>Athens, 27.8.2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest_events_across_europe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurof-wftu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurof-wftu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurof-wftu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurof-wftu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurof-wftu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eurof-wftu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1636,"href":"https:\/\/eurof-wftu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/1636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurof-wftu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurof-wftu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurof-wftu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurof-wftu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}