The Athens metro staff union SELMA on Friday announced a warning 24-hour strike οn Tuesday, March 28, in protest over problems that hamper the safe provision of rail transport services for the roughly 1.5 million passengers that use the metro system each day.
Among problems raised by the union were a shortage of some 847 staff in various positions, the lack of new trains and of parts for trains and other rail infrastructure, the failure to uphold agreements and the need to update and review procedures for work on the lines and the network, as well as others.
“For us railway workers, it is the right time, in agreement with the demands of French workers and after the tragic accident in Tempi, to highlight the consequences of the privatisation policies, the anti-labour laws on pensions, on labour agreements, of the poverty and unemployment that now threatens the entire planet,” the announcement said.
