Strikes

Athens metro, urban train ISAP and the tram will not run for three hours on Tuesday morning, May 10, due to a work stoppage launched by the STASY workers’ unions. Unions said the work stoppage would last from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Metro, tram and ISAP trains are expected …

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Public Transport in Athens will be disrupted on Sunday due to the workers’ strikes on Labor Day, May 1, while affected will be also ferries and ships and trains across the country.. In an updated statement on Friday, transportation unions said that the Athens metro and tram will not run …

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All ships and ferries will remain docked at ports throughout Greece on Sunday, May 1, 2022, due to a 24-hour strike, the    the Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation (PNO) announced on Tuesday. Affected are all ships of all categories. Τhe strike starts at 00:01 on Sunday, May 1, and ends at …

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Public transport, sea and air traffic will be heavily disrupted or just paralyzed on Wednesday, 6. April 2022, as several transport workers unions have declared to participate in the 24-hour general strike. For 24 hours, ferries will remain docked at the ports and airplanes will be grounded at the airports, …

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Greece’s public and private sector unions, ADEDY and GSEE, will launch a nationwide 24-hour general strike on Wednesday, April 6, to protest the price hikes and the stagnation of wages. The general strike that is expecting to paralyze the country is the second  in three years. Central demand of the …

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The Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation (PNO) announced an extension of the 48-hour sailors’ strike for all categories of ships until December 13, 2021. The extension strike starts at 00:01 on Sunday, December 12, and ends at midnight on Monday, December 13, state run news agency amna reports on Saturday evening. The …

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Ferries and ships will remain docked as Greece’s seamen federation PNO has announced it will launch a 48-hour strike on December 10-11, 2021. The strike will affect all categories of ships. It will start at 00:01 on Friday, December 10 and end at midnight Saturday, December 11, 2021. According to …

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Ferries and ships will remain docked as Greece’s seamen federation PNO has announced it will launch a 48-hour strike on December 10-11, 2021. The strike will affect all categories of ships. It will start at 00:01 on Friday, December 10 and end at midnight Saturday, December 11, 2021. According to …

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Urban Rail Transport SA (STASY) employees will hold a work stoppage from 11:00 to 14:00 on Friday, November 19, in order to attend the funeral of their colleague, who was killed in a workplace accident on Tuesday. The Athens metro and tram systems will come to a standstill in order …

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Workers at public transport means in Athens will launch a 24-hour strike and work stoppages on Thursday, November 18, to protest the killing of their colleague during maintenance works at Metro Line 1 early Tuesday morning. Workers at Metro, Tram and Urban Train ISAP will hold a 24-hour strike. Buses …

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Food service enterprises across Greece will launch a protest and shut down their businesses for 24 hour on Thursday, November 11, 2021. The strike is a symbolic act of protest against the new restrictions imposed for unvaccinated citizens  since last Saturday depriving the sector of 30% to 50% of their …

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Ferries will remained docked at the country’s port as Greece’s Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation PNO is launching a 48-hour strike starting on Wednesday, November 10, 2021. The two-day PNO strike by the Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation (PNO) starts at 6.01 a.m. and ends at 6:01 a.m. on Friday, November 12. The Federation …

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The Federation of Greek Primary Teachers (DOE) will launch a 24-hour strike for Monday, October 11, against the mandatory evaluation of teaching staff and schools. The teacher’s strike is a response to Education Ministry sought the court to cancel any planned strike. The court ruled that theachers’ strike were “illegal” …

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The workers’ union of the Public Power Corporation (PPC), GENOP-DEI, has announced a 24-hour strike to be held on Tuesday, October 19. The strike has been scheduled to coincide with a meeting of PPC shareholders who will discuss increasing the company’s share capital. A protest gathering will be held in …

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Video footage captured arsonists as they fired flares in the middle of the night starting a fire close to the settlement of Daskalio by Keratea in south-eastern Attica. One of the flares fell in the settlement and one into the sea nearby, an eye-witness told state broadcaster ERT TV. He …

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A PZL firefighting airplane crashed during operations to put out a fire on Zakynthos island on Sunday. The pilot survived. Media reported that the pilot made an emergency landing on the trees in the Makria Rahi area and managed to get out of the wreck. A local told Ionian TV …

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Metro workers in Athens launch work stoppages on Wednesday protesting their working conditions. The strike affects Metro lines 2 and 3 and Urban train ISAP (Line 1) and will take place from 9 p.m. until the end of the shift. The unions of ISAP and STASY workers complain about their …

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Education Minister Niki Kerameos on Tuesday filed an urgent lawsuit in response to the 24-hour strike called on June 16 by civil servants’ union confederation ADEDY and the Labor Center of Athens. According to an education ministry announcement, it was resorting to the courts “with the sole purpose of ensuring …

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Greece’s  public sector and the seamen union have called for a 24-hour nationwide strike on Wednesday, June 16, to protest the planned Labor Law. Public sector union umbrella ADEDY will hold a protest rally in downtown Athens at 11 a.m. Ferries and ships will remain docked for 24 hours. In …

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The general 24-hour strike launched by public and private sector umbrella unions ADEDY and GSEE is expected to paralyze Greece on June 10, 2021. The strike will cause disturbances to transport of people and goods. Ferries and ships will be docked at the ports and trains of Trainose and Proastiakos …

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