Metro, electric, tram, suburban and trains pull handbrake – Buses, trolleybuses and taxis work stoppages – Ships tied up in ports – From 11 am the gatherings start in Athens.
The movements of the passenger public will be hindered tomorrow due to the 24-hour nationwide strike announced by GSEE, EKA and PAME, with a peak in punctuality and the increase in wages.
Metro, electric, tram, suburban and trains will remain stationary for 24 hours, as the workers have decided to participate in the 24-hour strike of the GSEE demanding direct recruitments and labor contracts against “the wave of punctuality and profiteering that daily affect the decent living of millions low-wage and low-pensioners”.
According to an announcement by Hellenic Train, a number of train routes will be operated with security personnel.
With work stops (from the start of the shift until 9:00 and from 21:00 until the end of the shift) the bus and trolley workers participate. Therefore, city buses and trolleys will run from 9:00 to 21:00.
The workers are demanding public, safe, modern transportation and a collective labor agreement and staff recruitment, signing of the collective agreement. Buses are expected to run normally.
With 50 buses and security personnel, Thessaloniki’s public transportation will run on Wednesday, due to the 24-hour strike.
With a work stoppage, from 5 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon, the taxi owners participate in the strike, while they have also planned a gathering at the SATA offices at 10 in the morning. With the slogan “no taxis on the roads”, the Taxi Drivers Union (SATA) calls on all taxi drivers to participate in the strike “for the three wounds that we need to close tax, project interception and multinationals”.
With 50 buses and security personnel, Thessaloniki’s public transportation will run on Wednesday, due to the 24-hour strike.
Ships tied up in ports
Ships will remain tied up on Wednesday throughout the country, as the management of the Panhellenic Maritime Federation unanimously decided to participate in the nationwide strike of the GSEE. The PNO strike will start at 00.01 on Wednesday 17 April and will end at midnight of the same day.
The workers are demanding that punctuality be addressed and that adequate conditions be ensured for a decent standard of living.
Doctors (EINAP) as well as OLME (three-hour work stoppage) will participate in the strike
Which train routes will run?
For the best possible service to the passenger public, Hellenic Train will operate the following routes with security personnel:
– In the section Athens – Thessaloniki – Athens: 52, 53, 56 and 57
– In the section Larissa – Thessaloniki – Larissa: 1591, 1592, 2593, 2594, 1597 and 1598
– In the section Piraeus – Kiato – Piraeus: 1300, 1305, 1318, 1323, 1326 and 2301
– On the Piraeus – Airport – Piraeus section: 1206, 1207, 1222, 1223, 1230 and 1231
– On the section Athens – Chalkida – Athens: 1532, 1535, 1550, 1553, 2530 and 2533
Also, due to the strike, the following itineraries are modified:
On the Piraeus-Kiato-Piraeus section: On Tuesday 16.04.2024, trains 2302 and 2304 will run their route from Piraeus to Ano Liosia by train, and on the Ano Liosia – Kiato section they will be replaced by buses.
In the section Athens-Chalkida-Athens: On Tuesday 16.04.2024 train 2534 will run from Athens to Afidnes by train, and in the section Afidnai – Chalkida it will be replaced by a bus.
Also, train 2539 in the Chalkida – Oinoi section will be replaced by a bus.
For more information about the routes, passengers can inquire at local ticket offices, electronic ticketing, the Hellenic Train app for mobile devices (HellenicTrain App), or 14511 (passenger service phone), including its Suburban of Athens.
Emergency measures on the streets of Athens
Emergency traffic measures will be taken tomorrow from 09:30 in the morning in the center of Athens, for better traffic management due to the realization of the gatherings and the protest march of unions, student associations and other collectives.
Specifically, according to the Traffic Police, the traffic regulations will be implemented gradually and on a case-by-case basis – where necessary and depending on the movement of the demonstrators – in streets surrounding the Propylaia, Omonoia Square (Patision, Aiolou, etc.), Syntagma Square (Othonos, Amalia and Vasilissis Sofia Avenues) as well as on the University and Stadium roads.
The center is inaccessible due to the gatherings
With the slogan “accuracy at the height, wages at the bottom”, GSEE will hold a protest rally at 11 am in Klathmonos square and PAME half an hour earlier at Syntagma.
At 5 pm, in the Field of Areos, a gathering and motorcade of the distributors in the center of Athens is planned.
The GSEE claims, according to its announcement, “increases in wages, taking immediate measures to deal with punctuality, the suppression of profiteering, as well as the reinstatement of the Collective Labor Agreements.
Greece is first in the distribution of profits in the national income and penultimate in the participation of wages in the national income. We are second in accuracy in the European Union and penultimate in wages.
Given the inflationary pressures in housing as well, GSEE proposes the development of social housing on public land with money from the reserves of the former OEK which amount to 1.5 billion and also through banks”.
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