Greek media employees, including administrative staff and press distributors, are staging two rolling 48-hour nationwide strikes, starting at 6:00 a.m. on Thursday and ending at 6:00 a.m. on Monday morning.

The strike action was decided by the boards of the unions ESIEA (Athens journalists), EPIEA (Athens media enterprise staff) and miscellaneous media sector unions and will affect all newspapers, broadcast media, news websites, press distribution agencies, the Athens News Agency-Macedonian Press Agency, magazines and all broader public sector and local authority media enterprises in the country.

The unions are demanding that employers sign satisfactory collective labour agreements, a stop to wage cuts, protection of entitlements and a stop to dismissals.