The famous Greek-American Portokalos family strikes back with “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3”. The “Greek Wedding” returns with a 3rd film and Nia Vardalos revives the role of Toula Portokalos, Along with Tula also Ian, actor John Corbett returns to the big screen for the joy of millions of …
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Labor Day Strikes and Work Stoppages in Greece’s public transport
Transport workers’ unions in Greece are mobilizing with strikes and work stoppages to mark the Labor Day on Monday, as they do every year on May 1, 2023. Especially public transport workers in Athens, are engaged in 24-hour strikes and work stoppages. Buses and Trolley buses will operate from 9:00 …
Read More »Ferries, ships docked at Greece’s ports due to 24h strike on Labor Day
Ferries and ships in Greece will remain docked at the ports for 24 hours as the Panhellenic Seamen Federation will launch a strike on Labor Day, May 1, 2023. The strike will start at 00.01 in the morning on Monday, May 1st, and will end at 24.00 at midnight of …
Read More »Greece’s Culture Ministry employees on 24h strike
Εmployees at the Greek Culture Ministry will launch a 24-hour strike on April 25, 2023 to protest a law turning five of the most important museums in the country. Employees strike aims to protest the law that changes the status of five major museums from public to private entity. These …
Read More »Athens Metro workers cancel their 24h strike on March 28
Athens metro workers have cancelled on Monday afternoon their 24-hour strike initially scheduled on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. All public transport mean will operate as usual. Earlier KTG wrote: Athens metro workers’ union SELMA will launch a 24-hour strike οn Tuesday, March 28, 2023 to protest problems that hamper the …
Read More »Athens Metro, ISAP and Tram workers on 24h strike, March 28
Workers at Athens Metro, urban train ISAP and the Tram will launch a 24-hour strike on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. The strike will affect all fixed-track public transport means in Athens, including metro lines 2 and 3 (Athens-Airport) as well as 1 (ISAP train Piraeus-Kifissia). The umbrella union of fixed-track …
Read More »Athens Taxis on 24-hour strike, on March 23
Τaxi union SATA has announced a 24-hour taxi strike for Thursday, March 23, 2023. The strike will begin at 06:00 on Thursday morning and will end at 06.00 on Friday morning. According to the announcement of the union, there will be a gathering on Kavala Avenue at 11:00 in the …
Read More »Greece 24h Strike: How public transport operates; ferries docked, no flights
For a second day within a week Greece will be paralyzed due to a 24-hour strike of the public and private sector unions demanding justice foe the train collision victims and safe transport in the country. Journalists are holding a 24-hour strike on Wednesday, March 15, in order to be …
Read More »Public buses operation on strike day, March 16
Public buses will join the nationwide strike on Thursday with work stoppages from the start of the shift until 9:00 a.m. and from 9 p.m. until the end of the shift, the OASA staff union announced on Tuesday. They will run normally 9:00 am – 9 pm to facilitate protesters …
Read More »Greece’s Air Traffic Controllers join the 24h strike on March 16
Greece’s air traffic controllers announced that they will join the 24-hour strike on Thursday, March 16. 2023. According to an announcement by their union EEEKE the strike begins at 00:01 Thursday and ends at 24:00 on the same day. Like other unions in the transport sector, air traffic controllers had …
Read More »Greece public, private sector unions declare another 24h strike
Public and private sector unions ADEDY and GSEE have announced another 24-hour nationwide strike on Thursday, March 16, 2023. The strike aims to demand justice for the victims of the train collision on February 28, no cover-up and immediate measures for safe transport. With an unanimous decision, the 38th Congress …
Read More »Greece General Strike: How public transport will operate on March 8
Greece is expected to paralyze on Wednesday as several unions of the private and public sectors and social groups are joining the general strike to demand justice for the 57 victims of the train collision Tempi and a thorough investigation into the causes of the disaster, bringing o justice all …
Read More »Train Crash: Greece’s unions mobilize for a general strike on March 8
Greece’s public and private sectors are mobilizing for a general strike on Wednesday, March 8, a week after the deadly head-on train collision as more details about chronic negligence and a blame-game anger more and more the Greek society. The strike start was made by public sector union ADEDY, but …
Read More »Public sector union ADEDY launches 24h strike om March 8
Greece’s public sector union ADEDY announced a 24-hour strike on Wednesday, March 8, 2023. ADEDY had initially planned to launch a work stoppage to honor the International Women’s Day, however it decided on Monday to a 24-hour strike. The union plans a gathering at 12:30 in Klathmonos Square, downtown Athens. …
Read More »Train workers launch one more 24h strike in Greece
Greece’s railway unions announced one more 24-hour strike on Monday, March 6, 2023. The strike affects all train services carried out by Hellenic Train, said the company, including all Athens suburban railway services Proastiakos. The Panhellenic Railway Federation plans meetings with the Transport Ministry and political parties. “It’s time for …
Read More »Athens metro workers on 24h strike to join train crash protest
Workers at Athens Metro Lines 1, 2 and 3 will launch a 24-hour strike on Sunday, March 5, in order to participate in the protest rally at 11 a.m. at Syntagma square. Metro unionists will join their colleagues at the Hellenic Train and other train unions who called for the …
Read More »Greece’s train workers on 48-hour strike over the weekend
Workers at Greece’s trains managing company Hellenic Train launched one more strike, this time a 48-hour one over the weekend, March 4-5., 2023, following the deal train collision on Tuesday night. They will hold a protest outside the Parliament at 11 a.m. on Sunday and demand the immediate implementation of …
Read More »Workers at Greece’s trains, Proastiakos launch another 24h strike
Hellenic Train and TrainOSE staff launched a new 24-hour strike on Friday, March 3, to protest the lack of safety controls that led to the deadly train collision on Tuesday night. The strike will affect all national and suburban (proastiakos) railway routes. In a statement on its further actions, the …
Read More »Workers at Athens Metro, Proastiakos, Trains on 24h strike
Workers at Athens Metro Lines 2 and 3 as well as at Proastiakos have launched a 24-hour strike to protest the deadly train crash at Tempi, where at least 43 passengers and 10 crew members have been killed. In a statement, Metro workers union said that they have similar problems …
Read More »Tentoglou 8.40 m jump cancelled due to “inappropriate shoes”; he strikes back with 8.41 (video)
A few hours after the IAAF’s decision to cancel his jump at 8.40m, Miltos Tentoglou came back with a valid jump at 8.41m, thus achieving the top performance for 2023 in the long jump. Video: Long jump at 8.41 m The decision of World Athletics was reportedly based on the …
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