Wave of Strikes Staged Across Greece - Democratic Underground

struggle4progress

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Thu Mar-17-05 08:08 PM
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Wave of Strikes Staged Across Greece

17/03/2005

ATHENS, Greece -- A wave of strikes paralysed Greece on Thursday (17 March), involving employees in public transport, schools, banks, post offices and utilities. Olympic Airlines and the Hellenic Railway Organisation were among those affected. The strikes were jointly organised by the two major trade unions -- the syndicate of civil servants and the union of private sector employees. The unions say the 24-hour strike is meant to protest rising unemployment and high inflation. <snip>

http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/newssummary/setimes/newsbriefs/2005/03/17/nb-08

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Beacho

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Thu Mar-17-05 08:44 PM
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1. If only we could do that here

A nice general strike would send a message

http://www.enrager.net/history/articles/seattle-general-strike-1919/

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struggle4progress

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Thu Mar-17-05 09:29 PM
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2. Thanks for the lovely link on the Wobblies!

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RUMMYisFROSTED

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Thu Mar-17-05 09:32 PM
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3. It would do more than send a message.

It would change everything.

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makhno

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Thu Mar-17-05 09:44 PM
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4. It's interesting ...

A lot of the federal jobs in this country are union as well, and yet you never see them staging any kind of industrial action, no matter how much the government dicks them around. What's up with that?

Take a clue from France, folks, when business stops, the power listens.

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Voltaire99

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Thu Mar-17-05 11:32 PM
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5. Strikes in Greece? It must be Spring

You really haven't lived until the garbage in the streets has piled up to the first floor windows, the festering piles filling the bellies of the hordes of stray cats and dogs, and the refrigerator and stove and everything else that runs on electricity are shut off, and you're walking across the city in +100 degree heat because the taxis are on strike in sympathy with the striking bus drivers. Meanwhile the students barricaded in the schools have set fire to the furniture and parents have been killed fighting one another outside...

To those of you in the US romanticizing such things I can only say: heh. Count your fucking blessings.

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aneerkoinos

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Fri Mar-18-05 03:49 AM
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6. I have lived! :)

The true romantic heros of Athens are the garbage men.

But these aren't strikes, these are yearly extra holidays to burn of some extra union cash. They strike only for few days with no concrete demands.

I wish they would sometime start a real strike, ie. make a demand and strike as long as that demand is met... :)

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