A workplace accident involving a cleaner at a school in Piraeus has drawn renewed attention to what the city’s workers’ union describes as widespread safety failures and chronic underfunding across…
A livestock farmer from Almyros in central Greece has gone on hunger strike to protest what he describes as government abandonment after his flock was culled because of sheep pox.
Completely out of touch with social reality, New Democracy MP Dimitris Kyriazidis has publicly complained that he ‘cannot get by’ on his parliamentary allowance of €5,000.
Farmers and livestock breeders from across Greece held a dynamic protest in the centre of Athens on Monday, gathering outside the Ministry of Rural Development and Food to demand immediate…
Farmers and livestock breeders staged a protest on Monday night (10 November) with a blockade of tractors outside Alexandroupolis airport, opposing the planned visit of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to…
Teachers’ associations serving the First Directorate of Primary Education of Athens (First DIPE) have denounced what they describe as a violent police response to a mass protest outside the directorate…
Parents and teachers protesting school staff cuts in Athens were met with riot police; organisers say tear gas and stun devices injured children and call for immediate hiring and accountability.
During a general emergency on 12 October, both CT scanners at KAT Hospital, one of Greece’s main trauma and orthopaedic centres, broke down, leaving the facility unable to perform critical…
The government’s new anti-labour bill misleadingly titled ‘Fair work for all – Simplification of legislation – Support for the worker – Protection in practice – Pension arrangements’ was approved in…
In his regular social media review, Kyriakos Mitsotakis sought to counter growing public anger over the cost of living and the government’s controversial labour bill, presenting the ‘green transition’ and…