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 …
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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 …
Read More »Ferries, ships docked in Greece due to sailor’s 48h strike
Ships and ferries will be docked at the ports of Greece as sailors’ unions have announced a 48-hour nationwide strike on February 8 and 9, 2023. “A 48-hour nationwide strike has been decided in all categories of ships, on February 8 and 9, as well as the initiation of procedures …
Read More »Actors, theater workers on 48-hour strike
Actors and theater workers have called a 48-hour strike on Wednesday and Thursday in protest at a draft government bill on pay in the sector. Strikers extend their mobilization to daily TV series sets where cameras will be off for the same two days. The strike is been joined also …
Read More »Sailors’ 48h strike: Ferries, ships docked in Greece’s ports
Ships and ferries will be docked at the ports of Greece as sailors’ unions have announced a 48-hour nationwide strike on February 8 and 9, 2023. “A 48-hour nationwide strike has been decided in all categories of ships, on February 8 and 9, as well as the initiation of procedures …
Read More »Greek FM Dendias slams Turkey’s missiles strike threat
Greece’s foreign minister has lashed out at Turkey after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to strike Athens with ballistic missiles. “It is unacceptable and universally condemnable for threats of a missile attack against Greece to be made by an allied country, a NATO member,” Nikos Dendias said Monday, arriving …
Read More »Erdogan threatens to strike Greece with missiles
Turkey’s ballistic missile test ‘scares’ Athens, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, adding it “will not sit idly if Greece continues to arm the Aegean islands.” It is the first time in the last few months, that the Turkish president does not reiterate his favorite threat “we’ll come suddenly …
Read More »Public Transport on strike paralyze Greece
Public transport means are on work stoppages or 24-hour strike, ships and ferries remain docked, trains are parked and even taxi drivers have pull the handbrake to raise their voice against the rising prices and the cost of living. The situation in the Greek capital Athens is for commuters even …
Read More »Greece Strike: Air Traffic Controllers on 6h work stoppage
Air Traffic Controllers have joined the general strike in Greece with a 6-hour work stoppage from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. At the same time, also workers at the Civil Aviation Agency have joined the mobilization against the rising prices and the cost of living …
Read More »Greece’s unions to launch a 24h general strike on Nov 9
Greece’s umbrella unions of the public and private sector ADEDY and GSEE have called for a 24-hour general strike on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. Purpose of the general mobilization is to protest the rising prices in all sectors of life in the country. The unions participating in the strike accuse …
Read More »Ferries, ships docked due to seamen’s strike, Oct 25
Ships at the port of Piraeus will remain docked on Tuesday, 25. October 2022, after five seamen’s unions declared a 24-hour strike. The unions demand a withdrawal of the revised Private Naval Code Law, and a renewal and implementation of collective labor agreements with wage increases. If you plan to …
Read More »Court rules the 24h strike in Athens public transport was “unlawful”
A court in Athens ruled on Thursday that the 24-hour public transport strike that brought the Greek capital to a standstill on Wednesday was unlawful and exploitative. According to the court’s decision, the strike called by the Athens Labor and Employment Center (EKA) and staged by the union of workers …
Read More »Athens Transport Workers on 24h strike Wed, Sept 21 UPDATE
Workers’ unions at all public transport means in Athens will launch a 24-hour strike on Wednesday, September 21, 2022, following a call by the Athens Labor Center. Buses and Trolley Buses, Metro, Tram and urban train ISAP will remain in the depots, forcing Athenians to seek alternative ways to reach …
Read More »“Shrinkflation” in Greece: Consumers strike back (POLL)
I have been literally frustrated by shrinkflation, spending more and more money to buy less product. And I was shocked over the weekend when I realized I spent a whole of 130 euros for supermarket purchases. It was supposed to be shopping to cover weekly needs. I did online shopping …
Read More »Earthquake strikes with 4.1R Skiathos and the Sporades islands
An earthquake hit with magnitude of 4.1 on the Richter scale the Sporades islands a few minutes before 6′ clock late Thursday afternoon. According to Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens, the epicenter of the earthquake was in the sea area 39 km North of the island of …
Read More »UPDATE Rocks fall on Shipwreck, after earthquake strikes with 5.4R between Kefalonia and Zakynthos
A earthquake stroke with a magnitude of 5.4 on the Richter scale between the islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia in the Ionian Sea. Greece’s Geodynamic Institute announced. The tremor occurred at 10:36 Thursday morning 70 km West of Zakunthos and 57km South-West of Lixouri on Kefalonia. It focal depth was …
Read More »One race athlete dead, one seriously injured when lightning strikes in N. Greece
One athlete was killed and another was seriously injured when a lightning struck participants of the Six Peaks Night Mountain Race on mountain Falakro in northern Greece in the early hours of Sunday. A third athlete survived with hypothermia, while the fourth athlete in the group, a woman, escaped the …
Read More »Earthquake strikes with 4R the island of Lefkada
An earthquake stroke with magnitude 4 on the Richter scale the island of Lefkada in the Ionian Sea on Sunday afternoon. The tremor occurred a few minutes before 3 o’ clock, south-west of the village of Vassiliki. According to Geodynamic Institute, the epicenter was 4 km West-SouthWest of Vassiliki and …
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