Mitsotakis Touts Wage Rises and Jobs Record as Unions Take to Streets on May Day

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has utilized a May Day video code to support his government's labour grounds against national criticism, citing a minimum wage emergence of 41 percent since 2019 and the instauration of much than 550,000 jobs arsenic grounds of tangible advancement for Greek workers.

Speaking connected Instagram, Mr. Mitsotakis opened with a motion to Greece's Eurovision entrant Akylas earlier pivoting to a nonstop rebuttal of absorption rhetoric. 

"Today you volition perceive galore casual slogans and unworkable proposals," helium said. "We respond with our record."

The monthly minimum wage has risen from €650 successful 2019 to €920 today, Mr. Mitsotakis said, portion unemployment has fallen by 10 percent points. 

He credited his authorities with ending a 12-year frost connected seniority-based wage increments, cutting societal information contributions by 5.4 percent points and extending private-sector maternity permission from six to 9 months. 

The Digital Work Card, present covering astir 2 cardinal employees, was cited arsenic a structural betterment ensuring close signaling of moving hours and overtime.

The code came arsenic large labour unions held rallies successful cardinal Athens, wherever workers demanded further involution connected vigor costs and lodging affordability. 

Union leaders argued that persistent ostentation continues to erode purchasing powerfulness contempt nominal wage gains — a complaint the authorities has consistently disputed by pointing to existent income maturation figures recorded successful 2025.

Greece marks May Day against a backdrop of improving macroeconomic information but enduring cost-of-living anxiety, peculiarly among lower-income households successful municipality centers.