Tens of thousands of men, women and youngsters took to the streets in Athens, Thessaloniki and other parts of Greece on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the country’s deadliest rail disaster.
Tens of thousands of men, women and youngsters took to the streets in Athens, Thessaloniki and other parts of Greece on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the country’s deadliest rail disaster.
Thousands of striking Greek workers and students marched through central Athens on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the country’s deadliest train crash – and demand justice and bigger pay rises.
Rail services in Greece ground to a halt and ships were held up in ports near Athens on Wednesday as rail workers walked off the job to mark the anniversary of the country’s deadliest train crash – and demand justice and bigger pay rises.
Rail services will be halted and ships will remain docked at ports near the capital Athens on Wednesday, as workers walk off the job to mark the anniversary of the country’s deadliest train crash.
Greece’s public sector will grind to a halt on Wednesday as the union representing civil servants, ADEDY, has called a 24-hour strike to demand pay rises and mark the anniversary of the country’s deadliest train crash.
Some 200 striking taxi drivers joined a motorcade across Athens on Tuesday, adding to the already considerable woes faced by commuters by the stoppage.
Taxi drivers across the Greek capital walked off the job on Tuesday for the first of a two-day strike that will coincide with action from other transport unions on Wednesday.
Greece’s largest public sector union, ADEDY, has called a 24-hour nationwide strike on Wednesday, demanding, among other things, pay raises and staff hirings in healthcare and education.
Flights to and from Greek airports will be grounded February 28 when air traffic controllers will walk off the job to join a 24-hour nationwide strike public sector union ADEDY demanding pay rises. Airlines are expected to cancel all the domestic and international flights. The only the flights allowed will be emergency air transport.
Lawyers in Athens announced a walkout on Thursday, when Parliament is set to pass the new Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure.
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.
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.