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The Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation (PNO) executive committee announced its participation in the 24-hour strike, planned for the 6th November by the GSEE trade union. GSEE will meet tomorrow, Wednesday 16 October, to further discuss the strike. As the Greek newspaper...

With a rising unemployment rate, Greece’s numbers continue to climb reaching 27.6 percent in July, in comparison with a revised 27.5 percent a month earlier. The national statistical authority reports that 1.36 million people were jobless in July, a ten...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' hope of getting the shattered economy back on track as soon as next year is being undercut by a problem even said seems perhaps the biggest challenge, the record unemployment rate, that a study...

Although hundreds of previous strikes and protests against austerity measures the last 3 1/2 years have all failed, Greek civil servants took to the streets on Sept. 25 for the second day of their 48-hour general strike which is...

Greek civil servants (ADEDY) have walked off the job at the start of a 48-hour public sector strike, the second in two weeks, to protest job cuts required for the country to continue receiving international rescue loans. State school, tax...

Testing the patience of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras who said they wouldn't be allowed to strike for even a single day, Greek high school teachers are continued their series of rolling strikes into a second week on Sept. 23,...

The big rally that took place on September 18 at Syntagma in Athens, Greece, by the Civil Servants’ Union, ADEDY, where numerous protesters had gathered against the plan to suspend and fire public workers, was converted into an anti-fascist...

Police in Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, are bracing for protests against austerity measures and the firing of public workers during the International Trade Fair from Sept. 6-7. Authorities said they would deploy 3,500 police and re-arrange traffic patterns and that...

Greece's main private sector workers union GSEE said in a report on Sept. 5 that three years of austerity measures have cost its members 37 billion euros ($48.5 billion) euros and will push a record unemployment rate of 27.6...

With crushing austerity measures creating a record 27.6 percent unemployment rate and putting 1.4 million people out of work, it will take at least 20 years for the jobless rate to drop below 10 percent, according to leaked extracts...