Yiannis Panagopoulos

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...

Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Evangelos Meimarakis on Wednesday had a meeting with the presidium and members of the General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE). Meimarakis said that the main opposition is not well informed on the course of...

The 2015 budget was voted in Greek Parliament (by a vote of 155 in favor, 134 against, 1 present) at midnight amidst anti-austerity protests and scenarios that the government plans to bring the Presidential election forward in early January, to put an...

The General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE) revealed data showing a huge decline in income for most Greek wage earners during the crisis. The data shows that approximately a million jobs have already been lost, while it warns for a new...

Greece 's umbrella trade union organisation for private-sector employees GSEE and employers’ associations on Wednesday signed a new national general collective labour agreement for the next year. Under the new agreement, the basic terms of previous agreements such the marriage...

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...

International auditors monitoring Greece's compliance with its EU-IMF rescue programme would have failed their own evaluation, the leading Greek union said on Friday. "Their programme has destroyed us, pushing the Greek economy into recession," said Yiannis Panagopoulos, head of private...