Labor Day poster

The Labor Day poster was designed in response to the celebration of the May Day, also called Workers’ Day or International Workers’ Day, and it’s the day that commemorates the struggles and gains made by workers and the labour movement in various countries, including Greece.

These past years, we witnessed an unprecedented, unsettling yet enlightening period unravelling before our eyes that significantly changed the world as we know it. Through restrictions and prohibitions, and with an imperative shift in the use of technology, this new era has its own characteristics and limits, imposing certain behaviours and excluding others.

The future of work however, will not be the same for everyone. The arts, the economy and press freedom have been severely impacted.

I believe human labor must follow certain standards, starting from a fair reward and ultimately honoring the worker. It should be individually accessed and tailored to a person’s needs and abilities. It is not profit that makes labor “sacred” but individuality.

Writing this in a country that counts numerous blows to its democracy, I can say the landscape of labor was and remains unfair for many, with plenty of room for abusive and irregular work relations.