On 9 April, a 24-hour nationwide general strike called by the two largest trade union organisations - the Greek General Confederation of Labour (GSEE) representing workers in the private sector, and the Confederation of Public Servants (ADEDY), representing public servants - took place with great success from the unions' viewpoint. Unprecedented numbers of private and public sector workers took part In the strike and subsequent march on Parliament, in what may have been the biggest mass mobilisation of the last decade. Workers' participation in the strike was universal in all means of mass transportation (air, land and sea) and the participation rate was also especially high in the industrial sector throughout Greece. In a resolution presented to the speaker of Parliament, the presiding committees of GSEE and ADEDY unanimously denounced:
On 9 April 1998, a 24-hour nationwide general strike was called by Greece's two largest union organisations, GSEE and ADEDY. Judging from the level of participation, the strike was the biggest mass mobilisation of the last decade.
On 9 April, a 24-hour nationwide general strike called by the two largest trade union organisations - the Greek General Confederation of Labour (GSEE) representing workers in the private sector, and the Confederation of Public Servants (ADEDY), representing public servants - took place with great success from the unions' viewpoint. Unprecedented numbers of private and public sector workers took part In the strike and subsequent march on Parliament, in what may have been the biggest mass mobilisation of the last decade. Workers' participation in the strike was universal in all means of mass transportation (air, land and sea) and the participation rate was also especially high in the industrial sector throughout Greece. In a resolution presented to the speaker of Parliament, the presiding committees of GSEE and ADEDY unanimously denounced:
unlimited and unconditional privatisations (GR9802155F);
sale on the stock exchange of up to 49% of the shares of public corporations playing a strategic part in the national economy, in the absence of an integrated business development plan;
merger or liquidation of public organisations or services of strategic importance for development and the national economy; and
the attempted general reform of labour relations in public corporations.
In the same resolution, the unions demanded:
a new general collective agreement (GR9804167N) which will improve workers' incomes, including a commitment to defray pay losses if the projected inflation rate is exceeded;
pay increases for workers in the public sector to offset the effects of the devaluation of the drachma (GR9803161F) on incomes;
the introduction of collective bargaining to the public sector; and
"genuine" and "honest" dialogue on the present and future situation of public corporations and banks.
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Eurofound (1998), Biggest general strike in recent years, article.
