ADEDY
Greece
Greek Workers Confederation Calls General Strike for November 12
The General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE) decided a general strike for November 12. This is the first strike against the new recessionary measures the leftist government is imposing.
The security fund reforms that will bring major pension cuts and...
Economy
Greek Public Sector Union ADEDY Calls For 24-Hour Strike Against New Bailout Deal
The Greek Public Sector Union (ADEDY) urged citizens working in the country's public sector to stage a 24-hour strike on Wednesday and express their opposition to the new 86-billion-euro bailout deal Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras agreed on Monday morning with the country's...
Greece
Greek Labor Day Action: Thousands of People and Ministers Participate in Rally
Downtown Athens is closed as of this morning, Friday, for strike rallies to commemorate Labour Day (May 1).
Participants of a rally by the umbrella labor unions of Greece, GSEE of the private sector and ADEDY of the public sector,...
Greece
Greek Alt. Administrative Reform Minister: Reforms for the People and Not for Lenders
"We will turn the reforms plan upside down " said Greek Alternate Minister for Administrative Reform George Katrougalos speaking to ANA-MPA Web TV. "We are doing the reforms for the people and for the State and not for our...
Economy
Public and Private Sector 24-Hour Strike Paralyzes Greece
Greece is paralyzed after the 24-hour general strike of the General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE) and the Greek Civil Servants' Confederation (ADEDY) on Thursday.
With three big protest rallies that started at 11 a.m., Athens was a city resonating with...
Economy
Greek Public Sector Union ADEDY Calls for Strike
Greek public sector union ADEDY has called for a 24-hour strike on Tuesday, following a court decision that ruled ADEDY’s initial attempt to abstain from new employee evaluation processes “illegal and abusive.”
Additionally, the union has decided to launch a new round...
Greece
Public Employees React to Evaluation
Greek public employees' union federation ADEDY and other public-sector unions announced that they will have recourse to the Council of State, Greece 's Supreme Administrative Court, to contest an extension of staff evaluation measures that they consider illegal and unconstitutional.
The unions will...
Economy
Greek Workers Protest Firings; Officers Await Back Pay
It hasn't worked yet, but Greek workers were to take to the streets on June 30 in another of hundreds of protests over austerity measures over the last four years, at the same time the government is moving to...
Greece
ADEDY To Strike June 30 and July 9
Public Servant’s Union (ADEDY) in Greece demands the abolition of the proposed legislation regarding the selection criteria by which Greek public sector senior staff will be evaluated, as well as the abolition of all measures concerning availability and redundancies of employees.
In fact,...
Economy
Greece Grinds to a Halt Amid Nationwide 24-hour Strike
Unions representing private sector workers and state employees in Greece launched a 24-hour nationwide general strike on Wednesday against the austerity measures put through by the government.
Called by Greece's umbrella unions ADEDY and GSEE, the industrial action disrupted trains and ferries,...