Αnnouncement of the ERT workers’ union (POSPERT)

Today, the Greek government ordered the employees of the Greek Public Broadcaster (ERT) to evacuate the premises of the broadcaster. They also announced that the closure of ERT is definite and that a new broadcaster will be launched with fewer employees in an indefinite period. The union of ERT workers issued the following announcement as a response. The government will most probably send the riot police to evacuate the building in Aghia Paraskevi-Athens in the coming hours or days. We ask for your solidarity.

THIS IS ERT! THIS IS ERT!

Αnnouncement of the ERT workers’ union (POSPERT)

Our response to the ministry of Finance: “Μολὼν λαβέ”! (cc. “Come and take it!”)

- The order to evacuate the premises of ERT that was given by lawbreakers, by those that violate the national constitution and are afraid of democracy is only violence that aims at driving us to give up on our struggle! It is only violence that aims at getting us down on our knees! It is violence to intimidate us!

We respond, in accordance with our conscience and with full sense of our duties, by continuing our struggle and defending democracy!

Principal workers’ rights and democracy as a whole are violated. The workers will not allow anyone to represent them and negotiate on their behalf!

They want to give the example to all civil servants. They want to show that they have managed to find a way to fire civil servants, to send more people to unemployment that is rapidly increasing!

They want to destroy democracy and any sense of labour law!

We respond: the two-party coalition government will not terrorize us!

We are working for the public broadcaster ERT and we are defending democracy!

We will not give up on our struggle if all sections of ERT do not operate again without a single lay off and without any abolishment of our rights.

Our legal team will exhaust all possible means!

Those ones who appointed the corrupted administrators, those ones who converted gradually the public broadcaster to a means of state propaganda present themselves as the incorruptible ones who will impose transparency by wiping out ERT.

The silence of ERT is:

THE SILENCE OF OUR COUNTRY
THE SILENCE OF OUR DEMOCRACY
THE SILENCE OF OUR CIVILIZATION

Translated by ReINFORM