The country is going on a two-day strike from today, on the occasion of the completion of one year since the tragedy in Tempe.
Taxi drivers in Athens are pulling the handbrake today (27/2) as part of a 48-hour strike, while they will hold a rally at the Ministry of Transport at 10:30.
In the context of the strike gathering of taxi drivers, emergency traffic measures have been taken on Spyrou Patsi streets (where the protesters will gather) and then successive traffic arrangements on the route via Athens Avenue, Karaiskaki Square, Marni, Patision, Alexandra Avenue as well as Mesogeion Avenue, up to the Ministry of Transport.
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Labor unions in subway, ISAP and tram, announced their participation in the ADEDY 24-hour general strike. As they state, among other things, the workers’ unions, “as a sign of honor and respect to the memory of the victims of the tragic accident in Tempe, on the occasion of the completion of one year since this unprecedented event, decided to carry out a 24-hour strike mobilization, on Wednesday 28 -2-2024.
Her Wednesday 28/2 according to the decisions of the OASA Employees’ Union and the ILPAP Employees’ Union, the urban buses and trolley they will perform work attitudes from shift start to 09:00 and from 21:00 to end. They will run from 9 in the morning until 9 in the evening. The commuter train has declared a 24-hour strike, so no route will be run on Wednesday
The journalists are on a four-hour strike
A four-hour work stoppage from 10:00 to 14:00 was announced for journalists by POESY for Wednesday.
“On the completion of one year since the tragic accident in Tempe with the 57 dead and their families demanding justice and punishment of those responsible, while precision and obscene profit suck the income of workers and pensioners, public hospitals are collapsing and the lives of citizens are getting worse , the country’s journalists demand collective Labor Agreements with real salary increases, decent working conditions and to put an end to “obscene profit and accuracy”, emphasizes POESY.
According to the Panhellenic Federation of Editors’ Associations, “journalists support the fair struggle of farmers and support the struggle of health workers for upgraded hospitals, and students for public higher education”.
Air traffic controllers
As noted, in a related announcement, “the Board of Directors of the Union of Air Traffic Controllers of Greece invites its members to participate in the ADEDY 24-hour strike on Wednesday 28 February 2024 from 00.01 to 24.00.
During the strike, only the flights provided for by the current legal framework will be served”. As soon as the announced strike takes place, the airlines will cancel all the scheduled flights of the domestic and foreign network.
4 shipping unions declared a 24-hour strike
Ships departing on Wednesday, February 28 from the ports of Piraeus, Rafina and Lavrio are expected to remain tied up, due to a 24-hour strike by four shipping unions.
The strike mobilization of the unions of the Panhellenic Union of Merchant Marine Engineers (PEMEN), the Panhellenic Union of Merchant Marine Sailors (PENEN), the Panhellenic Union of Merchant Marine Engine Crews “O STEFENSON” and the Panhellenic Professional Union of Merchant Marine Cooks will begin at 00:01 in the early hours of Wednesday February 28th and will end at 12:00 midnight on the same day.
The shipping unions claim solutions to labor and pension issues, signing contracts with substantial increases and measures to be precise. “We are calling on all seafarers, in the ports of Piraeus, Rafina, Lavrio, not to miss the strike on February 28” they say in their statement. Echelons of PENEN will be in the three ports of Attica from 5:30 in the morning on 2/28/24 to guard the strike. At the same time, seafarers will gather in the port of Piraeus.
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