The tertiary trade union organization for the industry wants to set up companies

The SBAE will continue to strengthen its position through contacts with regional industrial links in order to strengthen the role of the manufacturing industry in the formulation of industrial policy and convergence center-region. The administration of SBBE will also guide the creation of a higher trade union organization for industry, according to the corresponding representation model of the other European countries. The above has clearly emerged at the meeting of the ASBE President, Mr. Athanasios Savvakis with representatives of the press in Athens on the occasion of the government's decision to include the following: badociation in the social partners and the controversy between BSE and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. and an effort to divide the business world.

"SBBE has nothing to do with ESB – there can only be division when we take the glove," said Savvakis, recalling that the demand for the 39; Association for his social status has been formulated for 40 years. However, he attributed to BSE a shortage of industry representation since the name change of the Association of Industrial Enterprises, although he acknowledged that there is has been a change lately and that industry is bouncing back into the agenda of the BSE. "The industry and especially the manufacturing sector will have to return to the heart of industrial policy and to do this, it will require specialized proposals from a purely industrial body," said Savvakis, while highlighting the need to "restore the Ministry of Industry as a central body" The demand of the company to become a social partner, as pointed out by Mr. Savvakis, is related to the development regional and centro-peripheral convergence does not need to be supported by BSE. As stated the Executive Vice President of the Association, Yiannis Stavrou, the distribution of resources between the center and the region is unequal and the purpose of the SBAE is to overthrow

M. Savvakis finally approved the increase of the minimum wage, the heresy of non-wage cost reduction. He also recalled that the first request for minimum wage was made by the Macedonian Association, which was transformed into SBAE in the early decades of the 20th century in order to put an end to unfair competition practices of Naoussa textile units which used children. and female work for a symbolic remuneration