With 24-hour strike and work stoppage transport workers participate in the general strike on 10 June announced by the transport workers ADEDY and GSEE-EKA reacting to labor bill.
More specifically, the fixed-track vehicles (Metro, Electric Railway and Tram) and trolleybuses will be at a standstill throughout the day. The buses will run between 9:00 - 21:00 due to the work stoppage announced by the Trade Union of OASA Employees.
Trains will remain stationary throughout the day on the OSE and of Suburban while the mobilisation also affects a number of services on Wednesday and Friday.
«The Workers' Unions STA.SY. joining their voice and their forces with all workers and trade unions, are participating in the nationwide 24-hour strike on 10 June 2021, calling on the government to withdraw, as they claim, the anti-worker - anti-syndicalist bill that leads to the circumvention of the 8-hour working day, the undermining of the institution of Collective Agreements and the criminalization of trade union action, the strike itself» they state in a statement and add:
STASY workers are on strike and demonstrating against:
-The abolition of the 8-hour period,
-In individual employment contracts,
-The abolition of the Labour Inspectorate,
-The weakening of the strike,
-The abolition of collective agreements,
-The abolition of law 1264 and the attack on trade unions.
«It is clear that this bill attempts to give a new crushing blow to the remaining workers» rights, which have been the target of the policies of all governments and employers during the last years of the crisis", the unions of the workers' unions of the Fixed Transport Services point out.
In a statement, the Panhellenic Federation of Railways (POS) notes that after all these years of memoranda, privatizations and all the other sufferings, the country needs DEVELOPMENT, but development that will improve and improve the lives of workers. But this Bill, the PSI stresses, not only deregulates the labour market but also imposes a form of modern slavery on workers. It is the obligation and duty of all of us, towards ourselves and future generations, to fight so that not even the few remaining rights we have won through our struggles to date are lost. This strike will be the beginning as other mobilisations will follow.’
Transport workers will participate in the protest rally at Claythmonos Square at 11:00 am.
PENEN: Normal participation in the strike
The joint decision of the 12 seafarers' unions of the Panhellenic Maritime Federation is that the 24-hour nationwide strike in all categories of ships will take place as normal, regardless of the decision of the Piraeus Court of First Instance which ruled on Wednesday that the 24-hour nationwide strike of the seafarers' unions was illegal.
The seafarers' unions have announced that the strike will start at 00:01 in the morning until 24:00 midnight on the same day.
The Panhellenic Union of Merchant Navy Engineers, the Panhellenic Union of Lower Engine Crews «O STEFENSON», the Panhellenic Professional Union of Cooks, the Panhellenic Union of Lifeboat Towing Crews and the Panhellenic Union of Pensioners of the National Health Insurance Fund have announced that they will hold a strike rally at 5.30 in the morning at Karaiskakis Square.
The Panhellenic Union of Merchant Navy Seamen has announced a strike rally at 10:30 in the morning at Chautia.
