Trade unions in Greece

Greece's civil servants' union (ADEDY) on Friday announced a work stoppage on October 2 to protest the government's planned changes to labor law included in the omnibus bill on growth.

Wednesday, May 1, is International Workers' Day. And that means a series of rallies and limited transport options due to strikes.

Public services will be disrupted on Thursday, and state schools closed, as the country's umbrella union representing civil servants, ADEDY, is holding a 24-hour walkout to express solidarity with teachers protesting government plans to change the system of public sector hirings.

Protesters took to the streets of the Greek capital and Thessaloniki on Wednesday during a 24-hour strike called by the country's civil servants' union ADEDY to demand salary and pension increases following years of cuts under the austerity programs of successive governments.

Greece's largest public sector union staged a 24-hour walkout on Wednesday, demanding wage and pension increases from a government still bound to keeping expenditure in check by its lenders.

The strike by the ADEDY union is the first major strike since Greece exited its bailout program in August.

Greece's public sector will grind to a halt on Wednesday as the union representing civil servants, ADEDY, has called a 24-hour strike and a protest rally to Parliament.

Civil servants' union ADEDY has said it will be holding a large rally on Thursday afternoon in front of Parliament in downtown Athens to coincide with a vote in the House on a string of measures demanded by the country's creditors to wrap up the final bailout review.

Bus services in Athens will be disrupted on Wednesday, May 30, followed by an all-day work stoppage on May 31 as workers announced on Wednesday they will join the 24-hour strike called by the public sector union, ADEDY, and the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE).

More specifically, buses will run from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesday.

The public sector union, ADEDY, and the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE) have announced a 24-hour strike on May 30.

According to statements issued by both unions, the industrial action will be taken to protest against "austerity, unemployment and overtaxation."

The state of public administration and state education is to a large extent due to the lack of any meaningful evaluation of employees, and without that there is no hope of improvement.