Greece - Substantial support for latest strike action - October 25, 2010

ADEDY, the civil service union federation, organised a strike on 7 October against the government’s austerity measures and its agreement with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, which was supported by thousands of civil servants. One element of the agreement is a reform of the public sector pay system; however, ADEDY does not want to enter into talks on this unless the government reverses the cuts in public sector pay implemented earlier in 2010. After a 24-hours’ railway strike on Thursday 14 October, starting Monday 25 October a series of rail strikes are planned (See also this Collective Bargaining Newsletter Year 3 September 2010).

English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/384; http://greece.greekreporter.com/2010/10/07/strike-against-austerity-thousands-hit-streets/;

http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/newsbriefs/setimes/newsbriefs/2010/10/14/nb-02; 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/greek-strikes-halt-train-services/article1771151/

This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. You may find further information on the ETUI atwww.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2009.