The Athens Bar Association will continue to abstain from its duties to protest the new tax bill up until December 8, inclusive, it said on Wednesday.
STRIKE
The Federation of Hospital Doctors of Greece (OENGE) is set to stage an 8-hour stoppage on both Wednesday and Thursday, with the Panhellenic Federation of Public Hospital Workers (POEDIN) also participating in the strike action. On Thursday at 12 p.m., hospital doctors and staff will gather for a protest rally outside the Health Ministry.
The Athens Bar Association declared a five-day abstention from all court-related duties on Thursday, in protest of the government’s new taxation bill.
There will be no taxis in Athens on Wednesday as the Association of Attica Taxi Drivers (SATA) has called for a strike.
Taxi drivers participated in a work stoppage in Athens from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, which was followed by a protest rally at the Ministry of Transport to demonstrate against a new tax bill designed to crack down on tax evasion of self-employed professionals.
The notaries of Athens and Thessaloniki are threatening to block the real estate market after announcing strike action beginning on November 20 in response to the way in which the digitization of notarial acts is proceeding.
Athens taxi drivers will be pulling off the capital’s streets for seven hours on Thursday and all day on Wednesday, November 22, their union, SATA, announced on Tuesday.
Trolley bus employees have announced a work stoppage from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday.
The Athens Urban Rail Transport STASY workers’ union announced the immediate resumption of Metro, Tram and Electric transport services on Thursday.
Greek public sector workers including teachers, doctors and transport staff walked off the job on Thursday to protest against labor law changes the conservative government plans, months after it was re-elected.
Trolley bus workers in the Greek capital are joining Thursday’s strike in a decision that will compound commuters’ woes, which are already going to be considerable as a result of protest marches being planned in downtown Athens.
A strike and rally called for Thursday by the Athens Labor Unions Organization (EKA) to protest recent government policy announcements gathered steam on Tuesday, as civil servants, air traffic controllers and bus drivers joined the action.
The union representing guards at archaeological sites has decided to launch a series of work stoppages during the peak hours of the heatwave affecting the country, which will likely mean that archaeological sides will close early on the days in question.
Civil servants will be walking off the job for a few hours across Greece on Wednesday morning in demand of higher salaries, their umbrella union, ADEDY, said on Monday.
The five staff unions of the Culture Ministry said on Tuesday they intend to continue their labor action against a law altering the operation of Greece’s five major state-run museums and announced a work stoppage for Wednesday.
Doctors will walk off the job next Wednesday, June 14 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and a meeting at the Ministry of Health has been called by board of directors of the Athens-Piraeus Hospital Doctors Association (EINAP) at 1 p.m. on the day.
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