Work accident at Achillion

There was a work accident on Monday morning at Achillion Palace, where repair and renovation work is being carried out.
 
The accident happened at around 11:30, when a 55-year-old worker fell from a two-meter ladder. He was taken by ambulance to Corfu Hospital with fractures.
 
According to the Achillion Workers’ Union, in the next few days an Employment Ministry team will carry out an inspection, as work accidents are becoming more frequent.
 
The Corfu Labour Centre announced that in the last few days two serious work accidents have happened – one in a hotel and one in a supermarket. At the same time, a scaffolding collapsed, but fortunately it was Sunday and there were no workers. Otherwise, there would have been another serious work accident.
 
The Labour Centre also stated the following:

“We are tired of asking employers to take protective measures and hire the necessary staff, in order to make working conditions more humane, prevent work accidents and avoid harming workers' health. Obviously, however, employers do not care about anything but profits. It does not make any difference whether we report them by name, because the same thing is happening everywhere, both where accidents are happening and where, by chance, they have not happened yet.
 
We are also tired of turning to the state control mechanisms and hearing that they have no staff for inspections and that their travel expenses are not being covered. At the same time, the legislative framework established by governments does not create serious conditions for employers to comply.
 
We therefore address only the workers and call on them to stop working alone and unprotected. We call on them to join the unions, to turn to the Labour Centre and to inform us of what is happening in the workplace that is undermining their rights and endangering their health and lives.
 
The more workers sweep the problem under the carpet, the worse it will become. No inaction, no waiting, no patience, no tolerance to exploitation.”