Strikes and any other potential disruptions

paulh · Last edited by paulh on Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:08 am; edited 4 times in total

Please keep this as factual as you can and if possible quote sources.
As long as the thread does not get too unwieldy I'll allow comment and opinion on the data in here but if it starts to get busy then comment and opinion will be deleted in favour of data so that information does not get hidden.
Earlier data may be found in the "Strikes" thread
http://www.livingincrete.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=2919
and the 'Updates on Petrol Status?' threads
http://www.livingincrete.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=2979.
For information please use this thread rather than those two

paulh · Last edited by paulh on Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:35 am; edited 223 times in total

This post is to be an up to date "summary calendar" of up to roughly the 4 weeks ahead with historical dates deleted as we move on. Posts below this give the detailed data and sources. Note that those posts below may well be edited and added to as circumstances change or to keep them up to date. In this circumstance it is not a new post so may well not show as having changed.
Weeks below start on Mondays.

23rd and Ongoing.......Air traffic controllers only to allow 70% of normal maximum traffic because of recent system failures

T ... 31/8 ...
W ... 1/9 ...
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M ... 6/9 ...
T ... 7/9 ...
W ... 8/9 ...
T ... 9/9 ... street kiosks on strike
F ... 10/9 ... street kiosks on strike
S ... 11/9 ...
S ... 12/9 ...

I delete posts below which have gone past their action date and which are effectively dead news.

paulh · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 5:49 pm Post subject:

my guess is that any potentially significant industrial action will take some time to organise and will possibly need some event or milestone to happen in parliament to anchor itself to, so, pure guess is that it will be 7 th to 15th September before we start to see a pick up of industrial action.

This autumn in general it is likely that the opening of "closed shop" industries will cause most problems including the laws regarding petrol stations and their proximity to places people gather which is being reduced from 200 metres to 50 metres and thereby will now allow supermarkets to open petrol stations as in the UK. This, at a time when a significant percentage of petrol stations have closed because people are not buying as much petrol because of the tax, is going down like a lead balloon. And lets not forget the lawyers, notaries etc all of whom think their closed shop is ok.

On top of all that we have legal challenges by various unions to some of the conditions laid down as necessary for the IMF money to be paid over.

We have a fun autumn ahead, enjoy the holiday weekend.

Carolina · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 4:20 pm Post subject:

OK here come the first rumblings..

According to 'Newsbeast', truck drivers are heading for a second strike at the end of August. An announcement of their decision is expected next week.
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paulh · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 6:25 pm Post subject:

Definite action. Because of the failure of the Air Traffic Control system last Sunday (detailed on other threads here) ATC operators are reducing the maximum allowable load by 30% until the reason for the failure is identified (and corrected?)

Apparently this was not the first such incident

http://www.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_kathremote_1_23/08/2010_351531

this could cause a cumulative backlog and so problems

paulh · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:27 pm Post subject:

General Workers Union & Civil Servants Union met with government officials today and basically got nothing so they are promising an autumn of strikes.

It looks like there could be a major strike Tuesday 28th September, though this is very early days and it most certainly cannot be called definite yet. It is not clear it will happen then or who will be involved if it does just early rumblings so far.

(they also promised a demonstration at the Thessaloniki International Fair on September 11th but that's not likely to disrupt Crete)

paulh · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:33 am Post subject:

Street kiosks are striking 48 hours over 9th and 10th September

Detail here http://www.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_kathremote_1_31/08/2010_353147

I remember when this happened earlier this year that many of the kiosks were open despite the strike call, so not sure how disruptive this will be.