International Trade Union Confederation

Over 20,000 people did not receive their salaries regularly in 2018, often it is not just a delay. Moreover, people are working also a job without signing a contract.

Four people were reportedly injured in Rhodes after a group of about 200 individuals stormed into the Rhodes Palace hotel where Greece's biggest private-sector union, GSEE, was expected to hold its 37th conference in the early hours of Thursday and clashed with union members.

Members of the Communist Party-affiliated trade union PAME clashed with representatives of the GSEE umbrella union for private sector workers during a session of GSEE's management in Athens on Wednesday. [Simela Pantzartzi/ANA-MPA]

The President of the Confederation of Labour ''Podkrepa'' Dimitar Manolov will open the 18th annual conference of the Trade Union Network of the European capitals.

They will discuss the opportunities for transport and mobility on the Old Continent.

More than 30 organizations from 12 European cities will join the event.

International Women's Day was marked in central Athens on Friday with a rally at Klafthmonos Square.
The demo was joined by anti-racists, feminists, trade unions and women's groups who called for workers in the private and public sectors to stop work, not go shopping and abstain from family obligations for the whole day.

The poverty threshold for a family of four was 6,543 Turkish Liras ($1,232) monthly as of January, a 3.5 percent increase from the previous month, the Confederation of Turkish Labor Union (Türk-İş) has announced.

Teachers took to the streets of Athens on Saturday in the latest in a series of rallies in the Greek capital against the government's public sector hiring reforms.

Teachers argue that the changes are unfair to those with years of experience and are also demanding the creation of additional permanent positions.

Hundreds of striking Greek civil servants, mostly school teachers, are marching through central Athens to protest proposed new hiring criteria for state school teachers.

The left-wing Greek government has promised to hire 15,000 full-time teachers over the next three years, starting this fall.

Public services will be disrupted on Thursday, and state schools closed, as the country's umbrella union representing civil servants, ADEDY, is holding a 24-hour walkout to express solidarity with teachers protesting government plans to change the system of public sector hirings.

Greek private sector workers have few expectations of seeing their salaries go up and little confidence in the future of their job, a survey by the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE) has found.