Strike action

Commuters will be left with few options on May Day as workers on the capital's urban electric railway (ISAP), city buses and trolley buses are to stage a 24-hour strike.

Guards at Greece's archaeological sites were on a three-hour strike on Friday morning over a string of demands, including the hiring of more staff to protect the country's historical monuments.

The guards' strike was scheduled to run until 11 a.m., prompting the closure of the sites.

Food delivery and courier workers take to the streets of Athens on their way to the Labor Ministry during Thursday's 24-hour strike to demand better working conditions. Strikers are calling on employers to provide scooters to workers, who are not only obliged to use their own vehicles but also, frequently, to pay for gas and cover their own insurance.

The groups representing food delivery workers in Athens and Thessaloniki on Wednesday called on workers to join a 24-hour strike on Thursday to demand better working conditions.

With the slogan "Don't order in today, cook some spaghetti," the unions are appealing to consumers to back their cause.

The union of Greek hospital workers, POEDIN, on Tuesday announced a four-hour work stoppage in Attica for March 28.
The action is scheduled to start at 8 a.m., and is expected to affect services at the region's public hospitals.
Strikers will also be gathering for a protest rally outside the Labour Ministry in downtown Athens at 8.30 a.m.

95 flights of the national Italian carrier were canceled due to a strike.

From 11.00 to 15.00 Bulgarian time, domestic and international flights of Alitalia were suspended.

A spokesman for the national carrier has assured that all passengers will be redirected within today.

The government spokesman had a point when he warned that turning the private lives of politicians - including any mistakes they have made or crimes committed - into a major political issue is like a meat grinder and indiscriminate in what it destroys.

The union representing local authority workers, POE-OTA, has called a 24-hour strike for Thursday, February 21, to demand that staff working hazardous jobs get paid a corresponding bonus.

Workers have been called upon to join a protest rally outside the Finance Ministry at 11 a.m. on Thursday to press their demands.

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.

Civil servants are to walk off the job on Thursday in a 24-hour strike called by their umbrella union, ADEDY, to express solidarity with teachers who have staged a series of protests over the past week against government plans to make changes to the system of public sector hirings.