Von: BueschelW@web.de im Auftrag von Wolfgang Bueschel ...

that we received recently gives an insight as to what is going on with the
people; my scenario would be that they are making cuts in the positions in
the government, and Greek Radio is state-operated and funded.
This is excerpted from the letter of December 7 that we received from
Cousin Anna Petridou, who has apartments a block from the water at
Thessaloniki, Greece. She was born in Washington, DC, graduated from high
school there, and returned later with here parents to live in Greece:
"We have gotten into the Christmas season. The store windows have put on
their Christmas ornaments, trying to lure the people to shop, but due to
lack of means, they just window shop. Greece is in debt on account of bad
managements done by the alternating previous governments for the past
thirty years. Greece is a step before bankruptcy. We owe a lot of money
from borrowing. Billions of Euros! The European Commission is ordering us
to cut down on expenses. Our government now is imposing on us a lot of
taxes. Taxes on buildings, automobile cars, country houses, cigarettes,
liquors, gas, food, clothing, electricity, and so on. Wages have been
frozen for the last two years. Prices are going up, and the people are in
despair. They are hoping that with the 13th wage they will be getting for
Christmas, they will be able to mend some of the openings they have. I,
myself, am lucky I have my own income."
Click the below link and open hyperlink to read:
(via John Babbis-MD-USA, dxld Jan 9)
NO TO LAYOFFS IN GREECE
... Participating in the strike were also employees of the Greek state
television and radio ERT, who will also be affected by new changes.
Currently the total number of workers in the state media is about 6000
people, 1300 of whom are with civil contracts and with the advent of the
New Year there is a real danger they will be unemployed.
"We need to make changes, because the system is really not working. Our
position is that if should be layoffs they need to be done based on
objective indicators like work efficiency rather than political party
affiliations and acquaintances," said an employee of ERT operating in
conjunction with the methods of appointment in the administration.
According to long term television workers during the management of New
Democracy in the past five years, many people were appointed to permanent
posts (with unreasonably high salaries) without meeting the necessary
criteria and without actually having ever worked in the media.
As a result, the budget of ERT has reached "fantastic" sizes, without
increasing the quality of the aired programs. "We want structural changes
that will objectively assess the team of ERT and will screen out employees
who deserve employment contracts and security for the future," said an
employee of ERT2, who has ten years of service in the TV and according to
who the media can operate much more effectively with fewer staff if the
management takes the right decisions to reform the administration ...
(18 Dec 2009 via John Babbis-MD-USA, dxld Jan 9)
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