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Garbage Strike

Sanitary Workers' Strike Continues; More Rallies and Nationwide Strikes Announced

Following a meeting with Greece's Interior Minister Panos Skourletis on Saturday with POE-OTA, the local authority union confederation, the leadership of POE-OTA said that the strike will continue at least until Thursday. POE-OTA has said that the draft legislation on...

Minister of Home Affairs and POE-OTA Fail to Resolve Issues – Trash Remains Piled in the Streets

The meeting of Minister of Interior Panos Skourletis with the POE-OTA (Federation of Contract Employees of Cleaning) concluded without any significant effect on Saturday afternoon, after the legislative regulation was announced on Monday by the Minister of the Interior on...

Emergency Powers to Tackle Garbage Strike

Greece is using emergency powers to order garbage crews back to work, as an escalating campaign of strikes by public servants and other unions against austerity measures has crippled services in the troubled eurozone member. Socialist Prime Minister George Papandreou...