strike

The country’s largest trade union ADEDY has announced a 48-hour strike for Wednesday the 19th and Thursday the 20th of March, in response to the coalition...

The President of Democracy Karolos Papoulias has arranged to meet with the leaders of teacher federation OLME today at noon, in order to discus the latest ...

The executive committee of private sector general worker confederation GSEE voted and decided upon a 24-hour general, nationwide strike to take place on...

The Medical Association of Athens (ISA) has warned the Ministry of Health to pay the outstanding wages it owes to the doctors of General Children’s Hospital ...

Port employee unions and federation from all over Greece have called a nationwide walk out until 11pm today, as well as demonstrations and rallies outside port administrative centers. Dockworkers have arranged to gather outside the Port Authority of Piraeus (OLP) today at 8am. The federations and unions are demanding that the government ends “its efforts […]

The DEI employee unions have announced two 24-hour strikes for Tuesday and Wednesday, in protest of the government’s intention to privatize 66% of Independent Power Transmission Operator ADMIE. The unions have arranged a rally at Korai Square at 3.30pm on Wednesday and a march to Syntagma Square, where they will remain outside Parliament until the […]

The leader of SYRIZA Alexis Tsipras has demanded that the government withdraw its healthcare bill, which he dubbed a “present to private interests”, after meeting with the board of directors of the EOPYY doctor union. Mr. Tsipras explained that the bill was a “time bomb” as thousands of people would be added to the current […]

Farmer unions all from over Greece are waiting to see what tax regulations and provisions will be voted for in Parliament on Thursday, in order to begin discussions on the possibility of strike action plans. The president of the Independent Farmer Unions of the Municipality of Serres Yannis Tourtouras announced that his union members will […]

The ongoing EOPYY doctor strike has been extended until the 7th of February, with the doctors accusing the government of attempting to fire 2,500 doctors by implementing harsh measures and disincentives. Support for the strike has also come from the Panhellenic Medical Association and the Greek Dental Association, which have urged their members to participate […]

The EOPYY doctor union POSEYP-EOPYY announced that it has abandoned talks with the Ministry of Health, after a Thursday evening meeting did not result in any progress. The doctors claim that contrary to his public declarations, the Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis completely refused to accept any changes whatsoever regarding a controversial bill on EOPYY. […]

The EOPYY doctor union announced its intention to continue its strike from the 7th to the 10th of January and called all of its members to take part in “the struggle for the decency of the sector”. POSEYP-EOPYY also clarified that emergency incidents will be handled by the security staff. The extension of ongoing doctor […]

The EOPYY doctors and the Ministry of Health will meet today in order to discuss their differences, in an effort to come to a mutually-accepted solution that will see an end to the ongoing doctor strike, which is scheduled to go on until the 3rd of January. The doctors however have accused the Ministry of […]

The Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Court Vasilis Pliotas forwarded to Parliament the complain report submitted by the administrative employee union of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens regarding the implementation of the controversial suspension measure, which lead to the selection of 1,348 employees for dismissal without any transparent criteria. The union’s complaint report was […]

The union of doctors working at EOPYY has announced its decision to extend its ongoing strike until the 3rd of January 2014, accusing the Ministry of subverting the discussions. The decision to extend the ongoing strike came in response to the Ministry of Health’s unexpected choice to include a relevant amendment in the controversial primary […]

The Senate of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens has announced that the academic year will last from the 16th of December until the 9th of August and as such, the semester which was considered wasted has been saved. According to the NKUA Senate, each semester requires 13 weeks of teaching plus additional two weeks […]

The School of Law at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens has announced that it secretly convened on Wednesday morning and after a vote, came to the conclusion that the academic semester has been lost, since the time allocated until February is not enough to cover for the lost time. A full announcement is expected […]

Even though the Prime Minister Antonis Samaras personally intervened so that the Ministry of Heath and striking EOPYY doctors can begin talks, it appears that the optimism of a quick end to the problem was short-lived. On the one hand the EOPYY doctors decided to continue their strike and on the other the Minister of […]

Farmers have expressed their intention to mobilize and take to the streets at the end of January or early February, during the nationwide farmer meeting that took place at the Labor Center in Larissa on Tuesday. The president of the Federation of Agricultural Associations in Karditsa Vangelis Boutas clarified that no such decision has been […]

After a four-week strike, the Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has intervened and arranged to have Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis and the EOPYY doctors on strike begin a new round of talks, to discuss the changes to be implemented in the primary healthcare system and EOPYY itself. While the striking doctors have agreed to negotiate […]

With the administrative employees at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens deciding to continue their strike, but allowing everyone else to return to their posts, teaching was expected to resume today. However, student occupations have meant that in many cases, such as the Law School, teaching could not begin. The president of the NKUA Law […]