Workers at Athens Metro and Urban Train ISAP surprisingly announced that they launch a 24-hour strike tomorrow Wednesday, July 6th 2016. Workers of TRAINOSE and Proastiakos will join the 24-hour strike tomorrow. According to a latest development, workers at the Tram will launch a work stoppage from 10 am until …
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Athens: Metro, Tram, Urban Train launch Work Stoppages June 6-17/2016
Workers at Athens, Metro, Tram and Urban train ISAP will launch a series of warning work stoppages to protest that public transport organizations will be transferred to the new Privatization super-Fund. The schedule for the work stoppages for the next 15 days are: Monday, June 6th: begin of morning shirt …
Read More »Strike: Greek Easter Sunday without trains, Proastiakos, Metro and urban train ISAP, May 1/2016
After workers at TRAINOSE, also workers at Athens Metro and Urban train ISAP decided to go on 24-hour strike on Easter Sunday, May 1st 2016. They protest the Pension Reforms and want the signing of collective bargains. TRAINOSE & Proastiakos strike starts Saturday, April 30th 2016, at 6 p.m. and …
Read More »Greece’s Trains & Proastiakos on strike over Easter weekend April 30 – May 2/2016
Workers at TRAINOSE will launch a strike over the Easter weekend thus disrupting holiday travelers. The Strike will start at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 30th 2016, and will end at 10 a.m. Monday, May 2nd 2016. Neither the trains nor the Proastiakos will be in operation. As the Metro Line …
Read More »Anarchists attack police station in Athens, cause damages in train station, raid supermarket
Α group of some 40 people attacked with Molotov cocktail bombs the police station in Exarchia late Sunday afternoon. According to reports, the group threw at least 10 molotov cocktail bombs and stones at the police station at 3:30 p.m., causing material damage at the building front and the guard’s …
Read More »Racism incident in Athens train: Security guard harasses African passenger (video)
A security guard tries to have a passenger out of the train wagon of Urban train ISAP. The guard tells the passenger that his suitcase is big and is disturbing the other passengers. “I am in charge here, you should move to another wagon at the end of the train …
Read More »Athens: Metro, Tram, Urban Train on 24h strike, Nov 15/2015
Workers at Athens Metro, Tram and urban train ISAP have launched a 24-hour strike on Sunday, November 15th 2015. Reason for the strike is the general assembly of the workers’ union of these three public transport means. “The strike will allow workers to participate in the assembly so that important …
Read More »Privatizations: Russian & US companies race for Greek TRAINOSE
The privatization of Greek Railways TRAINOSE is developing into a Russian-American race as companies from both countries have expressed interest on the sale of 100% of TRAINOSE . Hellenic Public Assets Development Fund, the Greek Privatization Fund (TAIPED) has set the deadline for bid submissions for December 3rd. A delegation …
Read More »Athens: Metro & Urban train ISAP station to close Dec 11/2014
Metro and Urban Train ISAP station “Omonia” will be closed to public as of 5:30 pm today, Thursday, 11. December 2014. A protest meeting and a rally against “state violence” have been scheduled by demonstrators. The wagons will pass through but passengers will have not possibility to get off or …
Read More »UPD Athens Metro, Tram, Train work stoppage cancelled, Oct 15/2014
UPDATE The work stoppage has been cancelled! Workers at Athens metro, tram and urban train ISAP (HSAP) will launch a work stoppage on Wednesday, October 15th 2014. The work stoppage will begin at 12 o’ clock noon and will last until 4 pm.
Read More »UPD Athens Court cancels Metro, Urban Train work stoppage, Oct 10/2013
An Athens court ruled the work stoppage to be launched by metro and urban train workers was illegal. Therefore, the metro and the urban train ISAP will operate as usual on October 10th 2013. Workers at Athens Metro and Urban Train ISAP will launch a work stoppage from 11 a.m. …
Read More »Golden Dawn witness: “Training to bat the carotid artery on living lambs”
Daily are the testimonies of former and current members of far-right Golden Dawn leaked to the press. The witnesses report of the hierarchy within the group, the training they received. Often the testimonies are shocking. Like this given by a witness named “E” who claimed that “they were trained on …
Read More »Rhodes: Police officer trains Golden Dawn cadres (pictures)
A trainer with special skills in using and handling with bats, in methods of self-defense. Nothing wrong with it if the trainer was not a police officer and his students were members of extreme-right Golden Dawn, a parliament party known among others for organizing operations in form of a paramilitary formation. pictures and …
Read More »Train driver allowed teenager daughter to drive the train
A teenager girl in shorts test driving a train? Ah, no problem! “Driving a train is” allegedly “a piece of cake”. Therefore the train driver let his daughter on the command of a train full of passengers. You know, in the art parents give private car driving lessons to their …
Read More »Trains, Proastiakos: work stoppage and 24h strike over Easter weekend, May 4-5/2013
Workers at Trainose trains and Proastiakos will launch one work stoppage and a 24-hour strike over the Greek-Orthodox Easter weekend, 4th and 5th May 2013. On Saturday the work stoppage will take place between 6 pm and midnight, while the 24-hour strike will take place on Easter Sunday. Due to …
Read More »Trains, Proastiakos on work stoppage, Apr 11-12/2013
Workers at Greece’s trains and proastiakos will launch two work stoppages from 8 p.m. until midnight on April 11th and 12th 2013. Athens Metro will operate only until <Doukissis Plakentias> station and not up/from Athens airport.
Read More »Train, Proastiakos work stoppages, Apr 3-5/2013
Personnel at Greek trains and Proastiakos will launch 8-hour long work stoppages on April 3rd, 4th and 5th 2013 and thus from 4 p.m. until midnight. Unionists demand the signature of new collective bargain, while at the same time they oppose their subordination to the new payroll of civil servants …
Read More »Greek Trains, Proastiakos on strike, Mar 23-24-25/2013
Personnel at Greek Trainose and Proastiakos will launch three 24-hour strikes from March 23th until March 25th 2013. The metro will not operate up/from Athens Airport. Trains and Proastiakos personnel protest wages and benefits cuts. “Wisely” enough they choose the long weekend, with Monday, March 25th, be a national holiday.
Read More »HP-Cosco-Trainose hub deal signed in Athens
Boosting competitiveness, creating thousands of jobs. The hub deal between Hewlett-Packard, Cosco and Trainose brought smiles in the faces of Greek government, the Prime Minister and the Development and Maritime ministers. “The deal between Hewlett-Packard, Cosco and Trainose to use Cosco΄s cargo terminal at the port of Piraeus as a …
Read More »Migrant vendor dies on train rails after being chased by municipality police
A migrant from Senegal got electrocuted when he jumped into the train track to escape municipality police chasing him. The incident occurred on Friday evening at Thission station of urban train ISAP in downtown Athens. According to Greek media citing eye-witnesses, the man was an illegal street vendor and the incident …
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