Greece: Work stoppage on Friday
05. March 2010. | 09:56
Source: ANA
The country's two largest umbrella federations have called a work-stoppage on Friday from 12:00 noon to the end of the shift, in protest of the supplementary austerity measures announced by the government on Wednesday.
The country's two largest umbrella federations have called a work-stoppage on Friday from 12:00 noon to the end of the shift, in protest of the supplementary austerity measures announced by the government on Wednesday.
The work stoppage has been called by the Civil Servants Supreme Administrative Council (ADEDY) in cooperation with General Confederation of Workers in Greece (GSEE), which are also organising a demonstration on Friday outside the Greek parliament during the debate and vote on the draft law introducing the new austerity measures.
The government on Wednesday tabled a bill in parliament on Wednesday containing the additional measures in tandem with the announcement of the measures. The bill, tabled under "urgent procedures", will be debated and voted on in parliament on Friday, after being discussed on Thursday by the relevant parliamentary committee.
Moreover, ADEDY is examining the possibility of bringing forward a 24-hour strike it originally called for March 16 to sometime between 8 and 12 March, an announcement said.
ADEDY's announcement said that "despite the trade union movement's reaction, the government has tabled a bill, to be voted in parliament under 'urgent procedures, on the unfair, antisocial and antidevelopment measures".
It charged that the government's measures include a sharp decline in civil servants' incomes, upset of the social security system and increase in retirement ages, a freeze on public sector hiring, privatisation of state property, new tax burdens, a freeze on and reduction in pensions, cutbacks in the public investments program, and abolition of the collective labor agreements in the public utilities and state organisations (DEKO).
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