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Sixty school cleaners were excluded form hiring this school year because of law change that now requires that they must have Greek language certificates and have Greek citizenship. According to the teachers’ union Parthenon, the cleaners were excluded from hiring in schools within the Municipality of Athens and they worked …

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Former Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis from conservative New Dimocracy was praising ex Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and attacking Prime minister Alexis Tsipras for being repsonsible of the ten plagues of Greece. Drawing with the darkest colors the impact of Tsipras’ policies he said that if the country bankrupcts, women will …

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Wearing red plastic gloves – the trade mark of cleaning ladies – Charis Alexiou went on stage on Monday evening on Syntagma Square right opposite from the Greek Parliament. The famous singer had agreed to give concert in solidarity with the 595 cleaners who had been laid-off by the Greek …

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Two protesting cleaners and photo-reporter Tatiania Boliari were taken to the hospital after they were injured during clashes with riot police outside the Finance Ministry in downtown Athens. It was three riot police squads in full uniform and equipment against 50 unarmed protesting cleaners. Pushes from both sides had the …

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The leadership of Greek police ordered an internal investigation against a riot policeman who hit a protesting cleaner on the head. Caught red-handed on a video, the footage shows an arm to be raised behind a shield and to hit cleaner Fotini Nikitara on the head. For no reason. At …

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Two cleaners with injuries in the legs were taken to hospital on Tuesday after a brawl with riot police. The policemen had tried to push away the protesting cleaners away from the finance ministry in downtown Athens. The cleaners had tried to block the entrance of the ministry but as …

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Fifteen cleaners entered the building of Finance Ministry at 7 o’clock in the morning, put a chain on the door and locked themselves in. The cleaners decided to symbolically “occupy” the ministry, after officials said to appeal the court decision to hire them anew. On May 16th, the First Instance …

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First Instance Court in Athens ruled that the Finance Ministry has to hire anew the 397 cleaners it had laid-off several months ago. According to the court, the finance ministry decision to sent home 397 cleaners in the context of ‘mobility scheme’ was illegal and unconstitutional as it occurred without …

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For one more day, a group of laid-off cleaning ladies had gathered outside Greek Finance Ministry to protest the loss of work place and income. A delegation even managed to meet with the general secretary of the ministry and submit their request  and thus in times of austerity and recession. …

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