strike

The Deputy Minister of Health Antonis Bezas announced that EOPYY would cancel the contracts of about 850 doctors it employees who also have private clinics. Mr. Bezas made the announcement amidst an EOPYY doctor strike over suspensions, mergers and dismissals in the public healthcare system. These doctors work morning shifts at EOPYY clinics and have […]

The academic semester appears to have more or less been lost, after the administrative employees at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens (UOA) and the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) decided to continue their strike over the government suspension and dismissal plans until Tuesday. With time running out, the Minister of Education softened his […]

The administrative employees of the National Technical University of Athens convened today and decided to continue their strike action which has seen universities shut since September, in spite of the Ministry of Education’s offer to discuss suspensions and dismissals. The employees announced that they will hold a 24-hour strike for Friday the 29th of November […]

The federation of EOPYY doctors issued a statement today to announce that their ongoing strike has been extended until the 9th of December, which they attributed to “the Minister of Health’s intransigent attitude regarding dismissals and the destruction of public primary healthcare”. With the strike extended to the 9th of December, the EOPYY doctors in […]

The Minister of Education Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos met last night with the board of the Rector Synod, which is comprised of the Rectors Mylopoulos of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Tsartas of the University of the Aegean and Anagnostopoulos of the Harokopio University of Athens. After a three-hour meeting, the two sides agreed to form a […]

After the Ministry of Education revised its dismissal and suspension plans, the administrative employees at the University of Athens are rumored to vote in favor of reopening the institution at their 11am general assembly. The University’s management and Senate members explained that the revised proposal offered greater protection for the vast majority of current and […]

The crisis in higher education appears to be coming to an end, with the Senate of the University of Athens convening today and reported that it is pleased with the Ministry of Education’s 5-step plan. The administrative employees are holding an emergency meeting to discuss the proposal. The Senate announced that its main position is […]

The meetings between the Minister of Education Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos and the Rectors of the 8 universities affected by the suspension measure have not had any real effect. The Senate of the National Technical University has demanded that the suspension measure be abolished since it will be “unable to recondiv the institution’s administrative operations under these […]

The EOPYY doctors have began a series of 24-hour strikes that will go on at least until Wednesday, in response to the suspension measure that is being implemented. The EOPYY clinics will operate with security staff. Furthermore, the Monday midday meeting with the Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis has been cancelled. It appears that the […]

With the Ministry of Education under pressure from the Prime Minister and unwilling to negotiate, the striking university administrative employees have controversially decided to extend their strike for another 48 hours, with the intention of extending the strike next week as well. The strike of the administrative employees at the University of Athens and the […]

With the Ministry of Education unwilling to negotiate with the administrative employee unions to end the strike that is threatening the current academic semester, there seems to be little hope to find an effective and fair solution. Student groups supporting the administrative employee strike against the suspension and dismissal plans have occupied many departments in […]

The doctors of EOPYY have announced a series of 24-hour strikes to begin on Monday the 25th of November, with representatives of the nationwide medical association demanding that a meeting with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and the leaders of PASOK Evangelos Venizelos, SYRIZA Alexis Tsipras, ANEL Panos Kammenos, DIMAR Fotis Kouvelis and the general secretary […]

The decision of the university administrative employees to extend their strike for an eleventh consecutive week has had a serious impact on the University of Athens, with the members of the Senate handing over their resignations to Rector Theodosis Pelegrinis. The senate members protested against the government suspension program and the threat of a police […]

While the university administrative employees decided to extend their strike for another 24 hours, the Supreme Council for Personnel Selection (ASEP) has published temporary lists of suspended employees. The lists, which organized in different categories based on department, role and ranking, were based on the data submitted to ASEP by the Administrative Directorate of the […]

On Sunday the federation of university administrative employees decided to extend the 10-week strike at the University of Athens and the Technical University of Athens by a further 24 hours, despite repeated pleas to allow teaching to resume on Tuesday. Meanwhile the Council of State rejected the appeal of administrative employees who wanted to suspend […]

The Minister of Education Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos gave an interview to Real FM where he explained that the academic semester will not to waste, despite the ongoing strike of university administrative staff. Mr. Arvanitopoulos claimed that “the universities will open” and that the administrative employee strike “has been found to be illegal by the First Instance […]

The country’s largest public sector union ADEDY is continuing its actions against the government’s suspension measure with a three-hour walk out and demonstration rally at the Propylaea at 1pm. The three-hour walk out came as a direct reaction to the regulations from the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Administrative Reform which suspended any university […]

The rector of the University of Athens Theodosis Pelegrinis was invited by VimaFM to comment on the recent developments in education and the prolonged strike of university administrative employees. Mr. Pelegrinis explained that the Senate has decided that the University must reopen and teaching must resume “if the administrative employees allow it”. The Rector noted […]

The Senate of the University of Athens convened today and later issued a statement to publicize its intention for teaching to resume next Tuesday, the 19th of November. In the announcement, the Senate explained that they came to the decision “having evaluated the explosive situation in the University due to the arbitrary measure of suspension […]

With the administrative employees of the University of Athens and the National Technical University of Athens opting to continue their strike for another week, prosecutor Panagiota Fakou has launched an investigation to determine whether a recent judicial decree has been violated. The university administrative employees decided to extend their strike until the 18th of November, […]