Metro, buses, Electric Railway (ISAP) today (1/10): The operating hours of public transport due to the strike – What applies for taxis

Passenger question contiguous volition beryllium severely affected owed to the information of nationalist transport workers successful the 24-hour onslaught declared by GSEE, ADEDY, EKA, and PAME successful protestation against the labour bill, nether the slogan:
“No to the 13-hour workday. Working clip is not a commodity. It is our life.”
At the aforesaid time, unions request measures against precocious prices, wage increases, and a solution to the lodging crisis.

Thus, today, October 1st, buses and trolleybuses volition tally lone from 9:00 successful the greeting until 9:00 successful the evening, owed to enactment stoppages (from the opening of the displacement until 09:00 and from 21:00 until the extremity of the shift).
Bus and trolleybus workers, successful their statement, said they are warring for safe, modern, and reliable transportation, demanding the contiguous quality to motion Collective Labor Agreements, the reinstatement of Collective Law, the abolition of each anti-labor memorandum provisions, and important measures to combat precocious costs and profiteering.

Buses connected routes assigned to the Athens Transport Consortium are expected to run normally.

The Metro, Electric Railway (ISAP), and Tram volition tally from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. successful bid to facilitate the proscription of demonstrators to rallies.
In addition, owed to the demonstrations and until their completion, Athens Metro stations astatine Syntagma and Panepistimio volition beryllium closed by constabulary bid (ELAS).

Cancellations volition besides impact railway and suburban bid services owed to the 24-hour onslaught announced by the Panhellenic Federation of Railway Workers.

Flights, however, volition run normally, arsenic the onslaught announced by the Air Traffic Controllers Union was declared illegal.

Ships volition stay docked astatine each ports passim the day, arsenic the Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation (PNO) has called a 24-hour strike.

The onslaught began astatine 00:01 and volition extremity astatine 24:00 the aforesaid day, covering all categories of ships nationwide.

According to the seafarers’ union, the mobilization is triggered by the caller labour ministry measure that increases the regular moving clip to 13 hours. PNO stresses that this measurement fundamentally abolishes the historical equilibrium of “8 hours work, 8 hours recreation, 8 hours rest”, creating superior problems for workers’ idiosyncratic lives, health, and safety.

Taxis are besides connected strike: The president of SATA, Thymios Lyberopoulos, had already announced that taxi drivers would articulation the strike.

Hospital workers are besides participating. In its statement, POEDIN highlights:
“The Public Health-Care System and EKAB (ambulance services) are astatine their limits owed to terrible unit shortages. Patients suffer, and wellness workers, nether exhausting conditions, are struggling to supply harmless services.”

Additionally, ministries, taxation offices, section authorities, societal information funds, municipality readying offices, banks, and the tourism assemblage volition run astatine reduced capacity.

Where rallies volition instrumentality place

Athens metropolis halfway volition stay closed successful the greeting owed to demonstrations organized today, Wednesday, by GSEE, ADEDY, and EKA astatine Klafthmonos Square astatine 11:00 a.m., portion PAME has called its members to rally fractional an hr earlier astatine Propylaea.

Teachers are besides participating successful the strike, meaning immoderate classes successful superior and secondary acquisition volition not instrumentality place. According to OLME’s announcement, teachers are protesting against the caller labour measure that introduces 13-hour workdays, arsenic good arsenic ongoing cuts successful nationalist education, which person led to unprecedented gaps successful schools. OIELE, the national of backstage educators, is besides taking part.

The Athens Retail Employees’ Union has besides decided to articulation the strike, demanding the withdrawal of the labour bill.

According to GSEE:

“With the projected regulations for moving time, the authorities shows it does not attraction astir the equilibrium betwixt nonrecreational and idiosyncratic life, nor astir wellness and information successful the workplace. At the aforesaid time, assigning the regularisation of moving clip to a paternalistic authorities ignores societal dialogue, deliberately weakens escaped corporate bargaining, and serves precise circumstantial leader interests. Greek employees, who already enactment much hours per twelvemonth than immoderate different EU counterparts and study overwhelming levels of enactment exhaustion, present look a dystopia. Enough is enough. We cannot endure more. Working clip is not a commodity, it is our life!”

Meanwhile, ADEDY demands:

• The reinstatement of the 13th and 14th wage and wage increases
• Collective Labor Agreements successful the nationalist sector
• Abolition of the caller disciplinary code
• Withdrawal of the 13-hour workday measure and implementation of a 35-hour, 5-day workweek for each workers