Kotsifakis
Economy
Greek Week Of Strikes Begins
In perhaps the strongest testing yet of the country's coalition government, Greece is braced for a week of protests and strikes from a number of sectors angry that the government is going to move workers involuntarily into other jobs...
Economy
Greek Teachers Strike Fizzling Out
After making a lot of noise that they wouldn't stand for being transferred involuntarily or fired and would strike in protest, Greek teachers are rapidly retreating with fewer than 20 percent turning out for meetings of their union OLME...
Economy
Teachers Plan Strike, Suit Against Transfers
With the beginning of the Greek school year looming, the teachers federation OLME said may strike to protest the transfer and firing of its members, and would ask the courts to intervene to stop a scheme being carried out...
Economy
Greek Teachers Union Head Faces Firing
Among the list of 2,122 teachers who are to be suspended with reduced pay and almost certainly to be fired under a plan ordered by international lenders to cut the Greek workforce is OLME teachers union head Themis Kotsifakis,...
Education
Greece Puts 2,000 Teachers On Firing Line
Moving quickly to follow the orders of international lenders to cut the public workforce, Greece has put 2,000 teachers in the so-called mobility scheme in which they will be involuntarily transferred or paid 75 percent of their already-reduced salary...