Solidarity with Nicosia Holiday Inn Workers

The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control held its 40th Annual Conference in Nicosia this week, 5th - 9th September 2012.

Four of our delegates were staying at the Castelli and the Holiday Inn Hotels. We were all shocked to discover that the employees of these hotels had not been paid for the past two months and that their national health insurance, social security, trade union fee and provider fund payments have also not been paid for up to a year, contrary to employment law and European Union standards.

We express our solidarity with the striking workers and to make the following statement: Until the strike is resolved and the workers have all received full back-pay and the payment of one year's missing social security, provider fund, health insurance and trade unions fee payments, the members of this Group, which has over 600 members, representing academics from universities in six continent, will not stay in any Holiday Inn, anywhere globally. We will also ask our colleagues in all of our institutions to support this action.

Nicosia, 9th September 2012