Strike

In the popular 1965 Greek political satire "A Matter of Earnestness" ("Iparche kai filotimo"), Andreas Mavrogialouros, an ornamental minister, visits his constituency to inaugurate an obstetrical clinic. While there, he discovers that his associates have been fooling him for years, using state funds to enrich themselves.

Railway and postal staff, dockers too. Britain's workers are striking in vast numbers as decades-high inflation erodes the value of wages at a record pace.    

Britain's train network faces further heavy disruption today and on Aug. 20 in major walkouts that follow the sector's biggest strike action for 30 years already this summer.    

Ljubljana – One of Slovenia’s two police trade unions, whose members have been on strike since 11 January, has announced it is stepping up the action with a three hour work-to-rule at various locations across the country on Friday.

Athens commuters will be without metro and ISAP electric railway services on Thursday, as workers at the fixed-track transport operator STASY joined a 24-hour strike announced by Greece's umbrella civil servants' union ADEDY, demanding protective measures for employees and mass hirings in the health sector.

Dimitris Koufodinas, the convicted hitman of the November 17 terrorist group, was discharged from a hospital in Volos, central Greece, yesterday where he had been taken almost a month ago after going on hunger strike to protest the refusal of a furlough request.

Culture Ministry employees working at Greece's state museums and archaeological sites have declared a 24-hour strike on Thursday, demanding  that the government publishes a list of ministry assets that will be put up for sale.

There will be no service on the Athens metro on Tuesday, as workers announced a 24-hour strike on Friday in opposition to the government's privatization plans.

"We will not allow urban transport to be put on the selling block of profit," the metro workers' union, SELMA, said.

There is a lot that can be said - and none of it good - about the strike by workers on the Athens metro on Thursday that caused so many problems not just for thousands of commuters but also motorists who ended up stuck in traffic jams. 

Disgruntled municipal workers in the Greek capital will be staging a rally outside Parliament in downtown Athens on Monday at 11 a.m., as colleagues from around the country gather at their respective city halls on the third of a four-day nationwide strike that started on Saturday.

Print media in Greece will be on strike on Thursday and Friday in a protest over pension reforms.

The 48-hour strike was called by the Panhellenic Federation of Journalists' Unions (POESY). The strike will affect electronic media and the semi-state ANA-MPA news agency as well.

The strike will end at 6 a.m. on Saturday, when broadcast media will begin their 48-hour strike.