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Nationwide Strike: Rallies and Transport Disruptions

Protest rallies organized by GSEE, ADEDY, and the Athens Labour Centre are taking spot contiguous astatine Klathmonos Square, arsenic portion of the 24-hour nationwide onslaught against the government’s projected labour bill.

Public Transport

Transit workers are besides participating successful the strike, starring to important disruptions.

• Buses and Trolleybuses: Services volition run lone betwixt 09:00 and 21:00, owed to enactment stoppages astatine the commencement and extremity of shifts.
  The workers’ unions authorities they are warring for “safe, modern and reliable nationalist transport” and are demanding the signing of Collective Labour Agreements, restoration of corporate bargaining rights, abolition of anti-labour memorandum provisions, and measures to amended work reliability.

  Routes assigned to the Attica Transport Consortium are expected to run normally.

• Trams: Will tally from 09:00 to 17:00 to assistance facilitate entree to rallies.

• Metro (Lines 1, 2, and 3): Will besides run from 09:00 to 17:00 for the aforesaid reason.

• Railways: No work is disposable connected the full railway network, including suburban lines. Hellenic Train announced that immoderate evening services volition beryllium replaced by buses connected circumstantial routes. Passengers are advised to cheque timetables via summons offices, the website www.hellenictrain.gr, oregon the lawsuit work enactment astatine 14511.

Maritime Transport

Ships stay docked successful ports crossed Greece, arsenic the Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation (PNO) has joined the strike.

The onslaught affects each categories of vessels and volition past from 00:01 until midnight. According to PNO, the government’s caller labour bill—which allows moving days of up to 13 hours—effectively abolishes the long-standing rule of “8 hours work, 8 hours rest, 8 hours escaped time.”

Seafarers’ unions accent that agelong hours already endanger workers’ health, safety, and household life. Port workers’ unions, including OMYLE, person besides joined the protest, demanding the bill’s withdrawal, reinstatement of corporate agreements, and measures to amended moving conditions.

Taxis

The Attica Taxi Drivers Association (SATA) is besides connected strike. In its announcement, SATA condemned the government’s labour policies and demanded decent moving conditions, highlighting the pressures faced by self-employed drivers and the interaction of deregulation and contention from multinational ride-hailing platforms.

Union Demands

• GSEE (General Confederation of Greek Workers) calls for wide information successful the strike, demanding the withdrawal of the bill, simplification of moving hours, and afloat restoration of corporate bargaining. It argues that a 37.5-hour enactment week is just and effective, stressing: “Exhaustion is not growth—human endurance has limits.”

• ADEDY (Civil Servants’ Confederation) demands restoration of the 13th and 14th salaries, wage increases, corporate agreements successful the nationalist sector, abolition of the caller disciplinary law, and a 35-hour, five-day moving week for each workers. Its rally is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. astatine Klathmonos Square.

Teachers’ federations (IOE, OLME, and OIELE) person besides urged participation, demanding akin measures, including wage increases, restoration of mislaid wages, and corporate agreements.