A strike affecting practically all of the greater Athens area’s mass transit systems caused traffic jams and congestion in the Greek capital’s streets on Monday, as trade unions – mostly representing workers in state-run organizations – declared the industrial action in protest over more memorandum-mandated reforms and measures.
One particularly irksome provision for Greek unionists is change in the labor law, namely, making the declaration of a strike action dependent on a majority vote by dues-paying members at a first instance union body.
A civil servants’ union has also called a work stoppage, with air traffic controllers also holding a 3-hour work stoppage the same day.
As in similar such cases, however, practically all of Greece’s private sector remains unaffected, inclusing most schools.
