POE-OTA

Municipal services throughout the country are set to shut down for four days, from Saturday until the following Tuesday, due to strike action announced by local authority staff unions demanding permanent jobs for local government contract workers and municipal...

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...

  On the occasion of Greece’s presidency of the EU Council, various NGO’s and trade unions, human rights and civil society organizations from across Europe, sent a letter to the President of the European Parliament asking him to scrutinize a...

At 10am, it was expected for the school wardens to reach Syntagma Square. The “marathon runner” march of  Greek school wardens began in Thessaloniki on the 28th of September with slogan “Marathon of Primary surplus, Unemployment, Poverty and Destitution,” ended...

Among the first to be transferred or fired under  a so-called mobility scheme, school crossing guards  in Greece sat in at the Ministry of the Interior on the morning of Sept. 4 in a protest the government said would...

Doctors are expected to go on a four-hour work stoppage on Wednesday, September 4 called by the municipal workers’ union POE-OTA. On September 4 at 11:30 a.m. Greek doctors have scheduled a protest rally which is going to begin outside...

After three years of austerity measures that created a record 27.4 percent unemployment rate and put 1.3 million people out of work – all in the private sector – Greece’s fragile coalition government is turning its attention to reducing...

After months of relative calm, and just as he said Greece was beginning to show signs of turning the corner toward recovery next year, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras faces perhaps the biggest challenge to his new fragile coalition...

While the Minister of Administrative Reform, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, was informing on July 10 Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, and Deputy Prime Minister,  Evangelos Venizelos, about the progress of the administrative reform at the Maximos Mansion, the POE-OTA (Federation of workers...

Municipal police officers set to be fired by the government to meet orders of international lenders to reduce the public workforce occupied Athens City Hall on July 10 and union leaders said the protest would escalate to the takeover...