Karnataka State IT/ITES Employees Union

Karnataka State IT/ITeS Employees Union (KITU) stand in Solidarity with the Telecommunication and Information Technology employees of Greece and their class oriented Trade Union – SETIP, in their 24-hour strike at Teleperformance, Webhelp, TTEC and Foundever. The employees of the biggest telecommunication service providers of the world are organising their struggle in Greece and have announced a 24-hour strike for Thursday, February 8th. The strike is called in Teleperfomance, Webhelp, TTEC, Foundever and is estimated to be covering around 20,000 employees. The Union called the strike with the following demands; 1. Permanent contracts for all employees who don’t have one 2. 5 days-7 hours a day-35 hours a week. 3. 20 % Increase in monthly salary for all employees immediately. 4. Automatic wage adjustment based on the index of increase in basic consumption items. 5. Unhealthy handset allowance 15% 6. Foreign language allowance of 10% for each language with recognition of the degrees of all languages the employee possesses, including the mother tongue, in case it is different from Greek. 7. Work visas for all non-EU colleagues. Immediate abolition of the disgraceful “special purpose” visa. 8. One hour break based on the prescribed regulation for working with screens. Excluding breaks for personal needs (toilet) 9. Timely notification before any movement from one project to another. 10. Full payment of work-from-home expenses (internet, electricity, heating or cooling and office equipment, including computer, desk, anatomical chair, footstool, headphones). Logout from all systems at the end of the schedule. 11. Protection of young mothers and people with health problems. 12. Abolition of the "clean desk policy" (where applicable) that violates fundamental human rights, causing health and hygiene problems (e.g. prohibiting employees from having medicines or personal hygiene items with them in the workplace)