Strike action

BELGRADE - Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic called on attorneys on Wednesday to go back to work as there are no professional reasons any more for them to go on with the strike which they started on September 10.

Minister accuses striking lawyers of "ties with tycoons"

BELGRADE -- Justice Minister Nikola Selaković called on attorneys on Wednesday to go back to work "as there are no professional reasons" to continue their strike.

The country's umbrella union representing workers in the private sector, known by its Greek acronym GSEE, on Friday called a 24-hour strike for November 27 to protest austerity measures being enforced as part of Greece's loan agreement with international creditors.

The Federation of Private Employees (OIYE, which represents retail workers) has called a 24-hour strike for Sunday, November 2, in protest at a controversial law allowing stores to open seven Sundays a year.

Workers in England's state-run National Health Service go on strike on Monday for the first time since 1982 following a government refusal to hike their pay.

BELGRADE - Members of five police trade unions ended their strike after ten days of protests, and representatives of the Independent Trade Union of Police conferred with Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic concerning the unions' requests on Monday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic and the representative police trade union of Serbia (PSS) agreed on Saturday to launch a new round of negotiations on the special collective agreement for police officers as early as next week.

After the meeting, Stefanovic once again urged the trade unions on strike to end the protest and continue the negotiations.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Thursday the strike some police unions had strarted was illegal and called on them to go back to work.

An Athens court on Thursday ruled that a strike called by Greek air traffic controllers this weekend, October 4 and 5, was illegal. As a result of the court’s decision, air travel was expected to run smoothly across the country on those days.

Greek air traffic controllers are set to go on strike this coming weekend (October 4 and 5) in protest at the use of airport charges.

The union representing the controllers called for the protest action after a ministerial decision gave the Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) access to airport fees.