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tagged: air traffic controllers, flights, general strike, Greece, june 28 29 2011, strike, work stoppageGreece: Air Traffic Work Stoppages, June 28-29, 2011
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Tourism
Greece’s Air traffic controllers will stage work stoppages on June 28th and 29th, 2011 joining the country wide anti-austerity protests and the general strike. Air Traffic Controllers’ work stoppages will take place on both days
from 08:00 am until 12:00 pm and 06:00 pm to 10:00 pm (local time) on both days.
During these hours to flight will land to or take off from any Greek airport.
Not affected will be flights over the Athens FIR.
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[...] no hospitals, no doctors, no dentists, no banks, no pharmacies, no ferries from/to Piraeus, disruptions in air flights ,… An unprecedented general strike, lasting 48 hours will paralyze Greece on June 28-29, 2011, [...]
Now this is just silly. Disrupting holiday flights doesn’t send any kind of message to the Greek politicians but it sends a very big – and very bad – message to the rest of the world. This is just being awkward for the sake of being awkward. I have been telling all my UK and USA friends that the Greek people are not the stupid, lazy, greedy people that the media makes them out to be. What will I say to my friends now now….?
Tell them that as the Mid-Term Programme will be voted June 28/29 the strike has to be on these dates. That’s the strike law…
But what message does it send to the rest of the world? Think of all the families whose summer holiday has just been wrecked. How many of them will come back to Greece in the future? And how may who were thinking of coming to Greece this year will now go elsewhere? And what effect will that have on all the struggling Greek hotels, restaurants and bars who will now have fewer customers than they would otherwise have had? Hitting one of your principal sources of income is about as dumb as you can get in my book.
it’s not a 48-h stirke but work stoppage: that means most likely flights will have just delays. Exactly out of concern for the tourism, air traffic controllers make just work stoppage and not total strike. The message to the world? No stricter austerity, no more wages & pensions cuts, no more taxes. The only ‘things’ without tax are breathing and (hmhm)… Don’t you think people have the right to protest about unjust measures that make their lives and the lives of their chilrden miserable?
I understand your motivation but I think you should restrain from unionized actions in those sectors which bring you income, that’s all. Customs and air traffic should resume work and express solidarity with fellow union members in other ways, loose work discipline, union branded work attire, etc, etc.
I am supposed to arrive in Greece on Friday and right now I have no idea if I will be able to pass the border, worried that the strike might extend based on the parliament vote. And being stranded on the FYROM-Greece border with a baby and a minor does not sound like a great start of a vacation. I can only imagine how many people have given up traveling to Greece today and tomorrow and how much money and ultimately tax revenue you lost as a nation because of this. Fight for your right, but be smart on who you rub the wrong way. Tourists will not forgive you and will forever generate bad PR for you.
The airtraffic controlers “want to be given control of their department’s budget. At the moment, the 653 air-traffic controllers, who earn an average monthly wage of 3,000 euros, are paid out of the money that Greece gets each year from the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol), which collects various taxes from airlines.”
http://archive.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_1_28/07/2010_118658
So their sallery is payed not by the Greek government and taxpayer but by Eurocontrol. And they get the money from airlines. And I bet that’s included in the ticket price we pay. Wow! These girls and boys ARE already privatized!
But how just strikes might be, and how much they have hold themselves back this year to not hurt the tourist industry, it WILL give a horrible message around the world. And I thank the lord I don’t have clients comming in for a workshop this week.
[...] no hospitals, no doctors, no dentists, no banks, no pharmacies, no ferries from/to Piraeus, disruptions in air flights ,… An unprecedented general strike, lasting 48 hours will paralyze Greece on June 28-28, 2011, [...]
Yes because this truly help the situation and Greece. Anyway, you know very well the Greek public will go on strike at the drop of a hat. It’s their favourite past time. The only thing they don’t want to do is work for their money. All the private workers I know will be working tomorrow. With one voice you support the small business with the other you destroy them along with your left wing supporters. Check the teacher’s info, it’s wrong to put false information on your site, maqny teachers are not going on strike.
A “General Strike” is not limited to 24 or 48 hrs. All these people getting crazy about these strikes don’t know that these strikes are not much more than a symbolic act by the corrupt unions to chanalize the resistance of the people.
A General Strike must be indefinite, otherwise it’s not a general strike.
So hopefully that’s the start up of a real strike!
HOLD ON STRONG!
All the people of the world who don’t have money for holidays are with you and the tourists that know and love the Greeks anyway!
btw: next week there will be an indefinite strike on easy jet germany
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