With a 24-hour strike, the employees of the Stationary Media (Metro, Electric, Tram) participate in the May Day demonstrations.

Therefore, the Metro Line 1 – Lines 2&3) and the Tram will be stopped on Monday, May 1st.

In its announcement, the STASY Workers’ Union emphasizes: “It may have been many years (137) since that bloody May Day in Chicago, but the struggles for human labor rights (which have been brutally affected in recent years) are not only current but and necessary! Our Unions pay tribute to this holy day and join their voice with all the collectives, against the impoverishment and impoverishment that have led the people to all the anti-labor provisions of the neoliberal Government that have been implemented so far”.

STASY workers are asking for a “minimum wage corresponding to the needs of the workers. Substantial increases in our incomes. Free trade union action without employer intervention. Public and Universal Health System. We are applying for recruitments, in order to cover the organic needs of the company with permanent staff for the orderly and smooth operation of the Means, for the benefit of the passenger public”.

The Athens Metro Operation Employees Union (SELMA) also issued an announcement for Labor Day. “We are striking and demonstrating demanding the abolition of all anti-labor provisions that lead to the strangulation of collective and individual labor rights, a minimum wage corresponding to the needs of workers, free trade union activity without employer interference. Abolition of the General Register of Trade Union Organizations for state control over the establishment and operation of unions and the exercise of the collective rights of workers, public and universal Health System. United we fight for our just demands, against our impoverishment and impoverishment. The rights and conquests of the workers are not negotiable”, it is pointed out in the announcement of SELMA.