On April 18, hundreds of immigrant farm workers in Nea Manolada, Greece, went on strike to demand higher wages and better working conditions. The workers are mainly from Albania, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Romania and Greece’s Roma community.
The All-Workers Militant Front, a mass labor organization founded by the initiative of the Communist Party of Greece, helped to organize the strike.
Union members and workers were attacked by thugs hired by the farmers to squash the strike. Police who witnessed the attacks did nothing to stop the violence.
Unable to break the strike, the farmers were forced to increase the workers’ wages three days later from around $35 a day to between $40 and $43 a day.
On May 12, thousands protested throughout Greece to demand better working conditions for immigrant and Roma workers.
