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Public transportation in Athens will be staggered on June 13 as transport workers join a strike called by the country's largest labor unions representing public and private workers in the aftermath of the government's decision to shut down the...

After the protest-ridden year of 2012 - there were 5,600  demonstrations, most against austerity measures - the Greek government wants to control them and limit their influence to prevent disruption to the city's center by small-scale organizings. Public Order Minister...

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...

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...

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...

The Greek Parliament has approved a plan to start dismantling state agencies that have little or nothing to do and start merging others in the beginning of what labor unions said is a move to fire scores of thousands...

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...

Greek civil servants called a 24-hour nationwide strike on Dec. 19 to protest against austerity measures and what it called the dissolution of public services. "The serious problems that workers in the public sector face, because of thousands of firings...

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...