Greece

Part-time workers and the hard-core unemployed have almost tripled during Greece's debt crisis despite a recent drop in the jobless rate, according to the largest labour union GSEE. Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their jobs in Greece since...

The head of the country’s private sector union, GSEE, said on Tuesday he is rejecting the demands made by Greece’s creditors on changes in labor laws, following a meeting at the Labor Ministry on the issue. When asked whether the...

Private sector union GSEE announced on Tuesday it will hold a 48-hour general strike when the government tables the social security reform bill in parliament, to protest the “unfair and ineffective” measures included. “GSEE has already decided to hold a...

The General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE) has scheduled a protest march for March 9 against the government’s plan for the reform of the pension system. Today, the executive committee of The Civil Servants’ Confederation (ADEDY) announced that Greece’s largest...

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....

With a three-hour long work stoppage from 12:00 noon to 3pm, Greek trade unions GSEE and ADEDY will join the Decentralized European Day of Action on February 29. At 1:30pm onFebruary 29, members of the two Greek trade unions will...

A 48-hour strike scheduled for the 27th and 28th of September was announced by the federations of tax and customs employees and the Ministry of Finance Employees' Unions, due to the new measures causing a reduced salary scale...

GSEE' s prediction that during this winter, Greek unemployment will be up to 20%.  This has come as a shock to the whole country.  This figure determines that about a million people will be left without jobs. During the first trimester of...

Much like in many parts of the world, the inflation rate in Greece has soared to its highest rate in nearly thirty years this month. The Greek inflation rate reached 11.3 percent in May alone, which is up from 10.2...

Labor Day rallies took place across Greece, organised by trade unions and demanding better wages, work and life conditions.

Trade unions in Greece have called for a strike to protest a new labor bill which, they say, will jeopardize the eight-hour workday.

Greece is for the most part silent today as the nation commemorates May Day several days late, after the Easter holiday.

Greek trade unionists marked their annual Labor Day with a rally in central Athens on Friday but were careful to keep a safe distance from each other, according to the guidelines instituted to fight the coronavirus epidemic. Rally organizers gathered...

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Saturday evening that Greek expatriates will obtain the right to vote in Greece's elections using absentee ballots, during the official inauguration of the 84th Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF). PM Mitsotakis presented what he...

Τhe Center for the Development of Educational Policy of the General Confederation of Workers of Greece (KANEP-GSEE) published a study in Thessaloniki recently in which it shows that unemployment among young Greek university graduates remains very high,  after nearly...