Today, May 1, the capital will be left without the means of fixed orbit, as the workers in Subway, Tram and ISAP go on a 24-hour strike to participate in the workers’ May Day rallies, while bus and trolley workers join the mobilizations with work stoppages.

Therefore, the Metro and HSAP trains on Lines 1, 2, and 3, as well as the Tram, will remain stationary for 24 hours. As stated in a statement by the STASY workers’ union, “the workers in Fixed Communications, we participate universally in the 24-hour strike, which was announced for the FIRST MATCH by the GSEE and the EKA and we also participate in the strike gathering in KLATHMONOS SQUARE at 11:00 a.m. .m.”

The buses and trolley they are immobilized from the start of the shift until 9:00 in the morning, and from 21:00 at night until the end of the shift. Normally, city buses are expected to run on the lines, which have been taken over by KTEL.

Cancellations and route changes are also expected at railroad network due to the general strike for Labor Day, in which the Panhellenic Federation of Railways (POS) participates.

According to an announcement by Hellenic Train, the following passenger trains will be running today:

  • Piraeus – Airport 1206 1212 1216 1222 1226 1232
  • Airport- Piraeus 1207 1213 1217 1223 1227 1229 1233
  • Liosia- Airport 2206 2214 2222 2230 2238 2246
  • Airport- Liosia 2215 2223 2231 2239 2247
  • Athens- Chalkida 1534 1542 1550 1558
  • Chalkida- Athens 1539 1547 1555 2531
  • Athens – Kiato 1304 1308 1316 1320 1324 1328
  • Kiato- Athens 1307 1311 1319 1323 1327 2301
  • Olympia- Pyrgos – Katakolo 1382 1385
  • Rio-Patra-Ag. Andreas 11302 11304 11306 11308 12300 12302 13302 13304 13306 13308 14300
  • St. Andreas- Patras- Rio 11303 11305 11307 11309 12301 13301 13303 13305 13307 13309 14301
  • Diakopto- Kalavryta 1330 1332 1336
  • Kalavrita- Diakopto 1331 1333 1337
  • The following buses will also run:
  • Athens – Thessaloniki C57 C60
  • Alexandroupolis- Ormenio C682 C683
  • Thessaloniki-Drama C1631 C1632
  • Thessaloniki- Florina C710 C715
  • Drama-Alexanroupoli C602
  • Drama- Xanthi C670 C679
  • Xanthi-Alexandroupoli C671 C672
  • Thessaloniki-Larissa C1592 C1593 C96 C95 C2594 C2597
  • Larissa- Kalambaka C1561 C1889
  • Larissa- Volos C1576 C1579 C2574 C2575
  • Lianokladi- Tithorea C451 C452
  • Stylida- Tithorea C159 C458
  • Athens- Lianokladi C120 C121

The rest of the Hellenic Train passenger trains as well as buses running internal routes within the Network will not operate.

The gatherings

The gatherings will start in Athens from 11 am, while POEDIN and EINAP have also sent a call for participation.

Pre-rallys for the May Day rally at the Constitution are set for 10 a.m. at the following points:

  • Kaningos Square: Federations, Unions and Struggle Committees of workers in the private sector.
  • Omonia: Federation of Craft Associations of Attica, Associations and Associations of Professionals, Craftsmen and Merchants, Women’s Federation of Greece, Women’s Associations and Groups, Pensioners’ Federations and Associations, mass bodies of the municipality of Athens, the South-West, West, North-West and North Districts of Athens.
  • Propylaia: Unions of Public and Private Education, Unions of Workers in Universities and Research Institutions, Student Associations, Student Coordinators.
  • Pillars of Olympian Zeus: Unions of Health and Special Education, Unions of ministries, Decentralized and Regional Administration, Unions of municipalities, mass organizations of the Eastern and Southern Districts of Athens.

Also at 10.30am:

Contribution of Alexandras and Kifisias avenues: Distributors in the food industry and couriers.

Gatherings in Thessaloniki

In Thessaloniki, the pre-gatherings for the May Day gathering at the Venizelos Statue have been set at 10.30 am, at the following points:

  • Contribution of Tsimiski – Aristotelous: Unions in the Trade, Catering, Tourism and Services sectors.
  • Athos Square: Unions in the sectors of Construction, Transport, Food, Chemical Industry, Energy and other private sector unions.
  • Karolou Dill and Ermou: Unions in the field of Information Technology and Telecommunications.
  • Agia Sophia Square: Unions in the fields of Health, teachers, the State, Student Unions.

The ships are tied up in the ports of the whole country

The shipping unions, on the occasion of the celebration of Labor Day, have announced a 24-hour nationwide strike for today, Monday, in all categories of ships. The mobilization starts at 00.01 in the morning on Monday May 1st and will end at 24.00 at midnight of the same day.

Maritime unions will participate in the strike gatherings in Piraeus at 11:00 in the morning, while seamen’s patrol groups will be present in the ports of Attica and in the rest of the country’s ports.

“We pay tribute to those who fought and many times gave their lives for the rights of seafarers, but also of all the workers of the land”, emphasizes in his message on the occasion of the celebration of Labor Day, the general secretary of PNO, Manolis Tsikalakis.

He points out that the naval workforce fights every day for the problems of colleagues, defending the process of collective negotiations, the repeal of the laws on the reduced organic compositions of ships and their staffing, with the aim of protecting human life at sea.

Mr. Tsikalakis states that this year’s Labor Day is particularly overshadowed by the ongoing war in Ukraine with the thousands of innocent victims, but also by the civil war that has been raging in Sudan for the last few days, our uprooted fellow human beings and the rest of the conflicts in various parts of planet.