The country will be on strike on Wednesday, May 1st, with fixed-route Public Transport being immobilized.
Despite the announcement by the Ministry of Labor that the May Day holiday is being moved to Easter Tuesday, many labor unions in the country have announced a strike for Holy Wednesday, May 1.
“The Executive Committee of ADEDY calls on public employees to actively participate in the strike and in the strike gatherings that will take place on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, throughout the country,” announced ADEDY.
For its part, GSEE is calling the workers to strike. “For the unions, May Day is a strike day and not a deferred holiday. The GSEE does not “claim” that the respective Governments declare the 1st of May as a holiday, and even a transferable one. The GSEE calls all workers, pensioners, the unemployed, to the 24-hour general strike for Labor Day, Wednesday, May 1st, and to the trade union rally, at 11.00 am in Klathmonos Square”, the GSEE writes, among other things, in its announcement .
How will the means of public transport move on Holy Wednesday?
In a statement, the Panhellenic Federation of Railways and Fixed Track Vehicles announced its participation in the GSEE 24-hour strike.
“We honor Labor Day by paying tribute to the dead workers of CHICAGO who fought for labor rights by sacrificing their lives to improve the lives of generations to come, throughout time. This year’s May Day finds workers and retirees facing an unprecedented crisis of living, fighting for a decent life, fighting for the self-evident as conquests of years are affected, in almost all levels of our lives.
This year’s May Day finds workers and pensioners facing an unprecedented living crisis, to fight for a dignified life, to fight for the self-evident as the conquests of years are affected, almost at all levels of our lives. That is why we are all called to continue our struggle more vigorously for dignity, equality, for a life without job insecurity, without punctuality, with respect for health, education, our social security rights, our income, our conquests . Stop the impoverishment of workers. As workers we will fight for the productive reconstruction of the country against the applied benefit policies. “, announced among others the Panhellenic Federation of Railways and Fixed Track Vehicles.
Ships tied up in ports
The Panhellenic Maritime Federation also announced its participation in the May Day strike on Holy Wednesday. THE the seafarers’ strike will be 24 hours and will start at 12.01 am. until 23.59 pm of the same day.
“In all the lengths and breadths of the globe, workers are once again uniting their voices, expressing their solidarity, determination and irrevocable decision to continue fighting for a better world, for a better tomorrow for their children and their families.
The seafarers, with the value of human life and dignity at work in mind, continue and intensify their struggle, proposing, among others, the absorption of all unemployed colleagues, the elimination of black insecure work, the implementation of SSEs and legislation and the signing of new contracts in all categories of ships, the immediate repeal of all anti-labor provisions that literally circumvent our fundamental trade union rights.
A barrier must finally be put in place to the continuous violation of the legal hours and employment limits of seafarers, the reduced organizational compositions must be immediately abolished and new ones established that truly respond to modern needs”, states the announcement of the PNO.
