What’s Up in Greece on Feb 20/12?
The rescue package is up in Greece as the finance ministers of Euro zone meet in Brussels at 6 pm (gr time) on Monday. While they give the green light to rescue Greece from bankrupcty with a fat new...
View ArticleGreek Banks to Get Rid of 20,000 Employees
Twenty thousands employees are at risk of losing their jobs due to the bank mergers. According to daily Ethnos, excessive personnel will see the exit door, regardless of the position they hold in the...
View ArticleMerkel’s Envoy to Greece Wants Lay-Offs of Municipalities Workers
Three thousand employees in Greek local governments do the job of 1,000 Germans. Hans Joachim Fuchtel, the envoy of German Chancellor to Greece, sharply criticized the overstaffed public administration...
View ArticleSocial Cooperatives: Greece’s new scheme to get rid of municipality workers;...
POE-OTA, union of workers at Greek municipalities called for a 48-hour strike on February 13-14, 2013. The strike decision comes as expression of solidarity to workers at social services offered by...
View ArticleBailout tranche balckmail: Troika wants 25K lay-offs from Greek public sector
Every two-three months the same procedure… Greece’s lenders increase pressure on the government of the debt-ridden country that hesitates to proceed with the Troika’s demands. This time the issue of...
View ArticleWhere did Greek taxpayers’ money go? To rather useless state organizations…
“There went the taxpayers’ money!” said a friend upon reading the list of organizations currently considered to close down or merged by the Greek government. “Research Center Kolokotronis? Institute...
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Troika-Greek gov’t agree to civil servants lay-offs; Public sector declares...
Greece’s public sector unions umbrella ADEDY will launch a half-day strike on Monday, July 8th 2013 to protest the upcoming mass lay-offs in the public sector. The strike will stat at 12 o’ clock noon....
View ArticleAthens: Mayor Kaminis attacked by angry protesters
Athens mayor Giorgos Kaminis came under physical attack late Sunday afternoon, while he was leaving a meeting of the Confederation of Greek Municipalities (KEDE). The mayor was beaten with fists and...
View ArticleGreek mayors threaten with mass resignations over workers lay-offs, while...
Municipality workers are on strike again on second consequently day. Thousands of angry workers and municipality policemen marched in downtown Athens again on Tuesday to protest the upcoming mass...
View ArticleGreece is boiling… with empty pockets
I am not going to talk about the masses of municipality workers and policemen, civil servants, teachers and school guards who take to the streets every day protesting the upcoming lay-offs in the...
View ArticleGreece’s “Devils Week”: strikes, municipality workers, public servants,...
A devil’s week begins today for the Greek bipartisan coalition government, with the public sector in uproar, municipalities up in arms, the controversial multi-bill in the Parliament, a voting to...
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Greek Parliament: 153 YES for lay-offs in public sector
With a thin majority of 153 votes out of 300 lawmakers in total, Nea Dimocratia and PASOK approved the multi-bill that will sack more than 25,000 civil workers until the end of 2014. The bill with 109...
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Euro zone delays bailout tranche to Greece due to 80 less teachers to be...
On Wednesday I read in Greek media, the Euro zone minister (Euro Working Group) gave the green light for the 2.5 billion Greek bailout tranche. On Thursday I read that the euro zone has delayed its...
View ArticleLarissa: Teacher suffers heart attack and dies after being laid-off due to...
The shock of being sent to labor reserve and lose the income overnight was probably something the heart of the female teacher could not bear. On Saturday afternoon, the teacher felt unease and fainted....
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12,500 Greek civil servants to be on mobility scheme asap
Alea jacta est! The die has been cast for 12,500 Greek civil servants. They will be sent home as by end of September with 70 percent of their previous salary. If the public administration won’t find a...
View ArticleGreek FinMin baptizes “lay-offs” in “obligatory exits”, promises to hire 15K...
AHA! Greek government found a new word to describe lay-offs in the public sector. They are not ‘lay-offs’ anymore but ‘obligatory exits’. In Greek government plans it comes even better: those 15,000...
View ArticleTroika postpones meeting with Minister of Administrative Reform over lay-offs...
The meeting between the Troika and the Minister of Administrative Reform was postponed in what it looks as ‘disagreement on the lay-offs issues’. The meeting was scheduled for Monday morning, but it...
View ArticleLarissa: Teacher suffers heart attack and dies after being laid-off due to...
The shock of being sent to labor reserve and lose the income overnight was probably something the heart of the female teacher could not bear. On Saturday afternoon, the teacher felt unease and fainted....
View Article12,500 Greek civil servants to be on mobility scheme asap
Alea jacta est! The die has been cast for 12,500 Greek civil servants. They will be sent home as by end of September with 70 percent of their previous salary. If the public administration won’t find a...
View ArticleGreek FinMin baptizes “lay-offs” in “obligatory exits”, promises to hire 15K...
AHA! Greek government found a new word to describe lay-offs in the public sector. They are not ‘lay-offs’ anymore but ‘obligatory exits’. In Greek government plans it comes even better: those 15,000...
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