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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

After the Council of Europe last month, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) considers that the measures adopted by Greece under pressure from the Troika (European Commission (EC), European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)) erode workers’ most...

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...