Greece’s largest public sector union ADEDY has called for a 24-hour nationwide strike on February 28 requesting, among others, pay rises and staff hirings in healthcare and education.
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Teachers at Greece’s public schools on Tuesday announced another walkout as part of ongoing actions against the government’s planned educational reforms. The three-hour work stoppage will take place on Thursday from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.
The referees of the Super League have reversed their decision not to officiate Round 14 of the soccer championship, which means that games will go ahead at the weekend as normal.
The general assembly of notaries’ associations has decided to extend a strike that began on November 4 until January 8, but with some exceptions, including for preparing preliminary agreements for real estate sales and acquisitions and cases with rigid timetables.
The workforce of the Athens tram and metro are to hold a three-hour ‘warning’ work stoppage on Tuesday, from 10 p.m. until the end of their shift.
Athens taxi drivers joined a nationwide cabbies’ strike on Tuesday morning and will be off the clock for 48 hours and possibly longer if a contentious tax reform bill delays being voted in Parliament until Thursday.
Taxi drivers across Greece have declared 48-hour strikes this week in protest at the government’s new tax bill, which, they say, puts an undue burden on freelancers and self-employed professionals, and deals a blow to their sector.
Taxi drivers in Athens will be on strike for 48 hours on December 5-6 and in Thessaloniki for four days on December 4-8, their respective unions have announced. The unions are responding to government measures aimed at combating tax evasion among the self-employed.
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.
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.
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