Determined to rally for 220 klm starting from Patras end finishing outside the Greek Parliament in Athens are hundreds of unemployed and working people to demand measures against unemployment and measures of support for the unemployed.

The initiative of the Municipality of Patras exposing the extreme problem of unemployment, the poverty and misery of the popular families which began yesterday on Sunday, April 3rd, has been embrased by PAME and the class-oriented trade unions, by active popular organizations, cultural and athletic associations of the people of Greece.

Some of the slogans heard along the long rally are: “Unpaid work and terrible working conditions is what the capitalist barbarity has to offer”, “No more poverty and unemployment, no more sacrifices for the plutocracy”, “We will not become slaves of the employers”, “We demand work for all, work with rights”.

The demonstrators will arrive in Athens on Sunday, April 10th, 2016.

The WFTU has extend its solidarity to the demonstrators and the people of Greece and appeals to its members and friends worldwide to send messages of solidarity to this important initiative