With the government issuing a mobilization order to prevent Greek teachers from refusing to work as monitors for university entrance exams, the union representing public sector workers said it would strike for 24 hours on May 14 and again on May 16, when it would be joined by the private workers union GSEE.
Protesting public servants will be gather at 10.30 a.m. on May 14 outside Athens University on Panepistimiou Street to march to Parliament in protest at a government decision to increase by two the hours that schoolteachers work every week in a bid to cut down on the cost of substitutes.
The plan has met with strong resistance from teachers, who said that they were going to strike at the start of nationwide university entrance exams on May 17, prompting the government to issue civil mobilization orders so that the exams are not postponed.
ADEDY also called on civil servants to gather late on May 13 at the central Athens offices of OLME, the union representing public schoolteachers, and to march to Parliament. Similar action is also being planned in Thessaloniki, Patra and other major Greek cities. Repeated strikes and protests, and even riots, over the past three years against austerity measures have failed.
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