Tsipras on abolition of collective sector agreements

Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) Pariamentary Group pre-sident Alexis Tsipras said on Monday that “the abolition of collective sector agreements means a return to the middle ages for the working people” and added that this also means ruin for small and medium-size enterprises due to illicit competition.

Tsipras further said that these developments mean more locks and greater unemployment, while stressing that “it is known to all that the collective agreements fall under national law and the troika and the memorandum have no jurisdiction. It is the government’s absolute responsibility to decide on what a future it wants, what a future it is preparing for the country’s working people.”

Tsipras went on to say that for this reason “a wide front of political and social forces is necessary to avert this nightmarish prospect.”