Greek teachers who had been ordered not to strike on the first day of university entrance exams, showed up to monitor the tests on May 17, giving up their plans to protest requirements for extra work without pay. They had said they would not work the exams but Prime Minister Antonis Samaras again invoked a [...]
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Strike Called To Support Greek Teachers
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 [...]
Sluggish May Day Protests In Athens
Only about 8,000 protesters took part in Greece’s May 1 general strike in Athens, a far cry from the nearly 100,000 that showed up last year, with many Greeks having already fled the city for their villages for the upcoming May 5 Easter. Greece’s largest trade union bodies, ADEDY, the union of the workers of [...]
Greek Union Calls May Day Strike
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who has largely escaped the wide-scale protests, strikes and riots against austerity that brought down his predecessor, George Papandreou, will face a test for his coalition government on May 1 as the country’s private workers union (GSEE) has called a general strike. It will be the second this year although [...]
Greek Jobless Rate of 29% Seen
With unemployment in Greece at 26.4 percent after hitting a record high of 27 percent, Greece’s General Confederation of Labor (GSEE), the country’s largest private sector union, said that its researchers project that unemployment will reach 29 percent by the end of this year, meaning the number of unemployed Greeks will reach 1.45 million. GSEE [...]
Anti-Austerity Protests Draw 60,000 in Athens
Enraged by more coming pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions, an estimated 60,000 people converged on the center of Athens on Feb. 21 during a 24-hour general strike that shut down services. Ferries stayed in port, schools closed, public services weren’t operating and hospitals were on skeleton staff. Scuffles broke with police firing tear [...]
GSEE Union Says Workers Pay For Crisis
In its monthly report on employment, wages, and taxes, GSEE, the General Union of Workers in Greece, claimed poverty is rising in unprecedented levels and that the tax system is stealing from the poor to give to the rich. The union said workers and pensioners have already contributed more than they should in taxes. The [...]
Metro Strikers Defy Samaras, Road Chaos Seen
Striking Greek Metro workers said they would stay off the job for a ninth consecutive day on Jan. 25 and disobey a mobilization order from the government to return or be fired or jailed. The deadline for the strikers to return was 5 a.m. but labor union leaders said their members would not their headquarters [...]
Public Sector Workers Walk Off Jobs
Greek public sector workers held a 24-hour strike on Dec. 19 to protest the country’s new $17.45 billion austerity program and the prospect of looming job cuts. The walkout was the latest attempt to derail Athens’ fiscal reforms and was called by the public workers union ADEDY. “We demand that the government changes these unjust [...]
Greece Participates in Pan-European Strike
In the context of the “European Action against austerity policies”, the two trade unions ADEDY and GSEE have called a nationwide work stoppage from noon until the end of the shift on Wednesday and a protest rally in Klafthmonos Square in downtown Athens. Forty labour organizations in 23 European countries will participate in the mobilization. [...]
Austerity Budget Done, Greece Waits on EU
Having done its job – approving a $17.45 billion spending cut and tax hike plan and an austerity budget, Greece is now waiting for its international lenders to hand over a long-delayed $38.8 billion installment in return as promised. It won’t happen quickly. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras succeeded in getting more austerity measures and a [...]
Big Fat Greek Strike
Tens of thousands of Greek workers began a 48-hour strike on Nov. 6 to protest a new round of austerity cuts that unions say will devastate the poor and drive a failing economy to collapse. The strike was called by Greece’s two biggest labor organizations and is the third in two months against spending cuts [...]
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Calendar – Exhibits, Concerts, Fun
- Edessa Cherries, Wine For Gastronomy Fair May 17, 2013
- Greek Choreographers Festival In Thessaloniki May 17, 2013
- Greece Celebrates International Museum Day on May 18 May 17, 2013
- Taxidi Exhibit 2013 Opens in Cyprus May 16, 2013
