GREEK TRADE UNIONISM

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Skaramanga: The shameful history of the ‘shipyards of the people’

The Skaramanga Shipyards were created in the 1960’s by shipowner Stavros Niarchos, before they were led to an impasse when the late Andreas Papandreou was prime minister due to repeated strikes declared by a workers’ union with no compunction.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Conceptions

In fact, a strike does not function merely as a lever to pressure a government or an employer. It is an opportunity for the demands of workers to become known more broadly.

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Looming battle over government bill imposing sweeping flexible employment, curbing trade unions’ strike action

Though the government is attempting to portray the bill governing labour relations that it is about to table in parliament as a patchwork of corrective interventions, its political ambition is to remake the institutional framework in Greece.