GSEE and ADEDY are calling for a 24-hour general strike on Wednesday (20 November) in which workers from both the public and private sectors will participate.

According to an announcement by ESIEA, media workers will strike from 5 am on Tuesday, November 19 to 5 am on Wednesday, November 20.

How will the means of public transport move?

Decisions to participate in the 24-hour strike of the GSEE on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 are taken by the transport workers of Athens.

Bus and trolley workers participate in work stoppages.

The OASA Workers’ Union and the Board of Directors of the ILPAP Workers’ Union (by a majority) decided on work stoppages from the start of the shift until 09:00 and from 21:00 until the end of the shift.

The city bus lines, which have been taken over by the Attica Transport Consortium and KTEL, are expected to run normally throughout the day (an announcement from OASA is expected).

Railroad

The railway workers also decided to participate in the 24-hour strike of the GSEE, by decision of the Panhellenic Railway Federation (POS).

Following this decision, part of Hellenic Train’s routes are expected to take place, including suburban of Athens with security personnel.

OASTH – Fifty buses on the streets with security personnel

On Wednesday 20/11, the workers at OASTH will also lift the handbrake, as part of the general nationwide strike.

The announcement clarifies that on the day of the 24-hour strike of the workers at the OASTH, security personnel will circulate 50 buses, while the service for the disabled will normally be provided and the night line of the airport (N1) will be operated. For the day of the nationwide strike, the Workers’ Union of the OASTH calls for mass participation in the gathering of the Thessaloniki Labor Center (EKTH), at 10:30 in the morning.

Who else is participating in the strike?

So far, federations have declared their participation in the strike with official announcements private teachers, builders and related professions, workers in public hospitals and banking organizations.

Ships tied up in ports

The ships will remain tied up in the ports of the country on Wednesday, after the unanimous decision of the management of the Panhellenic Maritime Federation (PNO) to participate in the 24-hour all-work nationwide strike announced by the GSEE management.

Hospital doctors are on strike

The hospital doctors (Federation of Associations of Hospital Doctors of Greece, OENGE) declare their participation in the strike on 20 November.

“The public health structures have shrunk by 40% compared to 2009 and their staff has remained half, aged and exhausted, while on the other hand the private health groups are having a “crazy” profit party,” the Union says in a statement.

Regarding PHY, OENGE expresses its opposition “to the baptism of unqualified medical school graduates as “personal” doctors, instead of the staffing of Health Centers with mass recruitment of permanent qualified doctors”.

It reacts to the transfer of “the only public Pediatric Oncology unit in the country, with its infrastructure and staff, to the private-business nature NPID “Children’s Oncology Hospital Marianna V. Vardinogianni – Elpida””.

He speaks of “degradation of the Organ Transplantation Unit of “Evangelismo” in combination with the removal of the authority to carry out transplant control from the 2 public hospitals of “Evangelismo” and “Gennimata” and its entire assignment to Onassios”.

Also, the hospital doctors express their strong reaction to the financing “with 30 million euros from the Recovery Fund to the private clinics to carry out part of the “free” afternoon surgeries and to be embedded in the people’s consciousness that they will have to pay out of pocket of the legal pouch in the evening paid surgeries of the public hospitals, otherwise it is doomed to wait on the lists of shame.”

OENGE claims the resolution of financial and institutional demands of hospital doctors, massive permanent recruitment of full-time and exclusive doctors, inclusion in the BAE, free modern health services for all

The announcement of GSEE

Dealing with punctuality, the increased prices of rents and the housing market, as well as the restoration of the Collective Labor Law, were at the center of today’s Plenary meeting of the GSEE.

The Confederation, given the fact that the government is not taking any meaningful action to address these critical issues plaguing private sector workers but instead implementing measures that are exacerbating their problems, resolved:

the realization of a 24-hour General Strike for Wednesday 20 November 2024
the implementation of an information campaign, which will begin immediately in all the regions of the country with particular emphasis on Athens and Thessaloniki, with the aim of massive and unifying participation in the 24-hour General Strike.
The government is failing to implement policies that boost workers’ purchasing power, which has fallen by 8% since 2019.

The bonus policy and the passes unfortunately do not solve the problems. Immediate measures are needed to deal with oligopolistic market structure and cartels, reorganizing labor relations and Collective Labor Law as well as implementing social housing programs with the reserve of 1.5 billion from the former Labor Home.

These measures meet the real needs of workers in the private sector and we will fight for the implementation of these measures.

The announcement of ADEDY

On the day of the strike, public employees will march in the center of Athens and in other cities of the country. The “rendezvous” in the capital has been set at 1:00 p.m. at Klathmonos Square.

With the strike, the civil servants claim:

  • Real salary increases immediately
  • Restoration of 13th and 14th salary
  • Collective labor agreements
  • Abolition of the 2% unemployment levy
  • Unfreezing of the 2016-2017 biennium
  • Tax-free at 12,000 euros
  • Increase and extension of hazardous and unhealthy work allowance without any cuts.
  • Supporting the NHS with generous funding.

Health and safety measures in workplaces and schools.

Reduction of the number of students to 1:15 and an end to school and department mergers.

Repeal of the Hatzidakis Law (Law 4808/21) and Law 5053/23 (Georgiadis) on labor matters, as well as repeal of all laws that privatize social security – Reinstatement of Law 1264/82.

Recruitment of permanent staff to cover the thousands of organizational gaps that exist in the State, especially in the fields of Health, Education, Social Security, etc.

At the same time, the workers say “no” to the privatization of public organizations and institutions.