Support from Germany

in the name of the German Education Union (GEW) I want to express our strong support to the demands of your union for better working condition at the European University of Lefke, for the recognison of your trade union and for the the reinstatement of your colleagues that have been dismissed.

I also want to unterline the solidarity of our union with your strike to insist on your civil rights as employees and citizens. All over Europe we can see, that education workers at universities are under pressure. Striking is never an easy choice for teaching personell, but your strike against the management of the European University of Lefke is justified. We support you in this struggle.

We hope that your protest will be successful and will give a clear signal to the management, the government, the media and the general public, that university staff has the right to organize in trade unions and that they are not accepting to be left behind with their salaries and working conditions.

Yours sincerely

Manfred Brinkmann