To the Board
of Administration of MSF International
On Friday,
the 8th of November 2013, we, the laid-off and unpaid workers of the Metropolis
music stores, organized a gathering outside the Greek headquarters of Doctors
Without Borders in Athens, in order to protest against the participation of a
group of persons backed up by Metropolis music stores’ owner (and our former employer),
Greek media mogul Andreas Kouris, in the Athens Classical Marathon 2013, along
with the team set up by the Greek branch of Doctors Without Borders. This is
the text that we delivered to the spokespersons of Doctors Without Borders, to
be communicated to the international headquarters of the organization, in
Switzerland, as well as to unions and workers' collectivities around the world.
We are laid off workers of the –once mighty– Metropolis music stores chain. For two years now we have been fighting, taking both legal and direct action, to be paid the wages and compensations that are rightfully owed to us and are being illegally withheld from us by businessman Andreas Kouris. Andreas Kouris also owns MAD Mass Media Corporation, active both in Greece and abroad.
Αthens, 8/11/2013
To:
The Greek Office of Doctors
Without Borders/Médecins Sans
Frontières (MSF)
We are laid off workers of the –once mighty– Metropolis music stores chain. For two years now we have been fighting, taking both legal and direct action, to be paid the wages and compensations that are rightfully owed to us and are being illegally withheld from us by businessman Andreas Kouris. Andreas Kouris also owns MAD Mass Media Corporation, active both in Greece and abroad.