Workers across Greece held rallies on May Day

Greece’s labour unions called for wide information successful the onslaught and rallies for May Day connected Thursday, May 1.

Specifically, the General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE) scheduled a rally unneurotic with the Athens Labor Center astatine 11:00 connected Thursday astatine Klafthmonos Square.

As the GSEE pointed retired successful a statement, “ for the unions and the satellite of labour that they represent, May Day is simply a time of strike, a awesome of designation of rights and the conflict for improved moving conditions. The imaginativeness of the Chicago workers for a amended and much dignified beingness remains applicable successful an epoch of shrinking labour rights and the overconcentration of wealthiness and powerfulness successful a fewer elites.”

In this context, the Confederation demands Collective Labour Agreements, progressive policies to woody with the precocious outgo of surviving and the lodging crisis, and determination of the minimum wage done escaped corporate bargaining and not done authorities decisions. It besides demands stronger authorities supervision successful the workplace to uphold legality, arsenic good arsenic prime nationalist goods, acquisition and wellness for all.

On its part, the Executive Committee of ADEDY called connected nationalist assemblage workers to actively enactment successful the onslaught and rallies that took  spot connected Thursday, May 1, 2025, passim the country

The main demands of ADEDY are arsenic follows:
– Reinstatement of the 13th and 14th salaries.
– Real wage increases.
– Abolition of the 2% unemployment contribution.
– Unfreezing of the wage standard for the two-year play 2016-2017.
– Tax-free astatine 12,000 euros.
– Increase and hold of the allowance for unsafe and unhealthy work.
– Recruitment of imperishable staff, to capable the thousands of integrated vacancies that beryllium successful the Public Sector, particularly successful the sectors of Health, Education, Social Security and elsewhere.
– Support for the National Health System with generous funding.
– Abolition of the Hatzidakis Law (Law 4808/2021).
At the aforesaid time, ADEDY expresses its absorption to the privatization of nationalist organizations and bodies.
“ May Day is not a holiday, it is simply a strike,” emphasized PAME, portion calling for information successful the onslaught rally astatine 10:30 a.m. astatine Syntagma and successful the different rallies successful each cities.

Source: ANA – MPA