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"Mr President, I believe it is my duty to inform you about the drama surrounding the redundancies at the company Dipasmata Drapetsonas.
The first 380 workers were made redundant in 1999. In 2003, the Committee on Petitions decided unanimously to ask for them to be reinstated. In 2006, the Supreme Court of Appeal in Greece decided, again unanimously, that the redundancies were invalid and abusive.
Despite the battle and their vindication by the court, the remaining 200 workers made redundant continue to experience the feeling of social injustice and financial isolation. The Greek Government is refusing to apply even this ruling by the highest court in the country.
In the face of this unprecedented political stonewalling, two of the members of the fighting committee, Francheskos Karakatsanis and Apostolos Panayiotidis, started a hunger strike in the middle of a heat-wave, which lasted 12 days and left them in hospital.
These people are claiming the obvious right to a dignified life for themselves and their families. I call on you to take initiatives for the credibility of the most favoured nation and social Europe."@en1
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