Greek strike against labor reforms disrupts transport, services

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Greek ships remained successful larboard and train services were halted arsenic workers walked disconnected the occupation connected Tuesday to protestation against planned labour reforms that see the hold of working hours successful the backstage sector.

The walkout, the 2nd this period by Greece’s largest nationalist and backstage assemblage unions, was timed to coincide with a parliamentary statement and a vote this week connected the government’s draught measure connected the reforms.

Striking workers, including infirmary doctors and nationalist broadcast journalists, are expected to march alongside different protesters to parliament astatine noon (09:00 GMT).

The draught instrumentality allows employers to widen working hours, gives them much flexibility connected short-term hirings and amends rules connected yearly permission successful the backstage sector.

The authorities says that the measure will make a much effectual and flexible labour marketplace and that the measure protects workers from being fired if they garbage to work overtime.

But labour unions accidental it hurts workers’ rights, abolishes an eight-hour workday and strips them of their negotiating powerfulness successful a state where mean wages are still debased compared with different EU countries, contempt wage increases and little unemployment aft a debilitating indebtedness situation from 2009 to 2018.

Greeks’ purchasing powerfulness is among the lowest successful the European Union bloc, Eurostat information shows.

“Instead of boosting workers’ incomes and reinforcing nationalist services, the authorities chooses to legislate work for multi-employers and gruelling working hours,” Greece’s main nationalist and backstage assemblage unions, ADEDY and GSEE, said successful a statement. 

[Reuters]