Civil servants are to hold a strike on Tuesday, November 15 from 1.00pm. The civil servants' union federation ADEDY plans to hold protest rallies at Klafthmonos Square in central Athens and at the Eleftheros Venizelos statue in Thessaloniki.

The union has also announced plans for a new general strike in collaboration with the General Confederation of Employees of Greece (GSEE) on the days when the new budget will be discussed and voted on in Parliament later this month.

During a press conference on Monday, ADEDY President Costas Tsikrikas and the union's new leadership team said the aim of the labour action was to "reverse the unfair, harsh and ineffective measures envisaged in the Medium-Term Fiscal Strategy, the omnibus bill and the new loan agreement".

Tsikrikas predicted that the new government will follow the same policy that "instead of leading the country out of the impasse, has sunk it into an even greater recession, with the result that the economy is collapsing and living standards are regressing by decades".

He noted that the policies had led to a 100 percent increase in unemployment since 2009, with jobless rates now running at 20 percent officially and closer to 25 percent unofficially, while in young people under 24 they reached as high as 40 or 45 percent.

Tsikrikas underlined that the attacks on public-sector employees in Greece were unfair since their number was no greater than 400,000 or 10 percent of the country's active population at a time when public-sector employees in many northern European countries exceeded 20 or 25 percent of the total economically active population.