Press Review July 8: Chemical weapons protest

Protests are planned in Crete over the operation to destroy Syrian chemical weapons in the Med; a new law is to change everything for the unions; shops are to remain open on Sundays year-round in heavily touristed areas in a pilot scheme; the privatization of the telecoms operator OTE led to private profits and public losses; and Greek crafts are threatened with extinction. Image: part of a poster made by campaigners against the destruction of chemical weapons in the Med.

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8 Ιουλίου 2014 | 09:33:41

	AVGI Marching over Syrian chemical weapons First target is to cut off the [NATO] base in Souda, Crete A call to assemble at 8.30 am at the Workers Center in Chania. A demonstration at sea is being prepared to thwart the operation to destroy the weapons.
	TA NEA Handbrake on strikes: new law to change everything for the unions What the troika wanted What PASOK doesn’t want When lockouts will take place When unionists will be given permits How unions will be funded
	ETHNOS A pilot plan in many areas this summer All shops open 52 Sundays a year The pilot scheme to begin in the historic centers of Athens and Thessaloniki and hevvily touristed islands Within the coming days the pilot scheme for shops to be open for all 52 Sundays of the year is to be launched with the aim of ‘expanding’ it to all cities within 2015.
	EFIMERIDA TON SYNTAKTON OTE: A model privatisation that is not… a model for privatisation EFSYN is opening the file on the much-advertised privatisation and counts… damages including 6,000 lost jobs, 3,500 workers on 265 – 540 euro salaries, sales of subsidiary companies, infrastructure and assets with profits of 1.5 billion euros for Deutsche Telekom and no benefit to consumers.
	NAFTEMPORIKI Chambers of Industry: Greek crafts are threatened with extinction A cry of desperation over the future of crafts and small industry is being sent out by the country’s chambers which, via a vote they co-signed following a meeting in Volos, warn that Greek crafts are threatened with total extinction. Indicative of the dire situation are the enrolment / removal figures from the membership lists of the largest artisan chambers in the country for the first half of the current year, which show a net balance of -1,297 businesses.