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Athens Airport Workers Call Off Strike

airportAthens International Airport workers, who said they were going to disrupt air traffic with strikes from Aug. 9-11 at the height of the tourist season in protest against the coming involuntary transfer or firing of public workers, including those working for the airport, have postponed any work stoppage after its union said government officials had agreed to negotiate with them.
“We believe this act of ours proves for once more that our intention and our target is to promote and develop tourism and not to destroy it, hoping this will be understood and an act from those who responsible institutionally,” the union stated, but adding that it was in “combative readiness.”
The government is planning to put 40,000 workers into a so-called mobility scheme in which they will be involuntarily transferred to other positions – such as teachers becoming health care workers, except that more than 1600 of those in the health sector will be in the program too – and paid 75 percent of their already-reduced pay and fired if another job can’t be found for them within eight months.

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