Welcoming the protests demanding accountability for the tragic train accident in Tempe, the IOC announced that it will participate in the strike of March 8, 2023 and the gathering at 12:30 in Klathmonos Square. “This is not the time for silence, it is the time for voice and struggle.” states the IOC and adds: “All teachers together with our parents and students can show our strength and our decision not to remain silent and demand, in an organized manner, that the responsibilities be attributed without offsets and cover-ups».

At the same time, the Federation requests that the necessary measures be taken to ensure modern and safe school infrastructures for teachers and students throughout the country, with sufficient funding for schools from the state budget, to formulate basic safety and hygiene conditions, to carry out checks on all schools under the responsibility of the state and staffed by the competent services, to immediately carry out anti-seismic checks in all schools under the responsibility of the state and to issue certificates of fire safety and control of the electromechanical equipment in all schools, by a state body and protocols of actions concerning the prescribed health and safety conditions of the school units.