Civil servants union keeps up attack against pay cuts ruling
Pasydy, the civil servants’ main trade union, kept up their attack on Tuesday against last week’s supreme court decision denying them retroactive reimbursement for salary...
Glafcos Hadjipetrou
Civil servants demand new pension plan
Civil servants including teachers and police personnel called on Friday for talks with the government over a new pension plan, warning they would not agree...
Public being misled over civil service pay cuts, Pasydy says
Some quarters are churning the rumour mill, deliberately misleading the public with grossly inflated estimates about the cost to taxpayers from a court decision court...
Civil servants’ income slashed by 30 per cent says union boss
Civil servants have seen their income slashed by 30 per cent on average throughout the economic crisis, union Pasydy boss Glafcos Hadjipetrou said on Tuesday....
Civil servant union chief against political postings
The head of Pasydy civil servants’ union, Glafcos Hadjipetrou said on Wednesday that no civil servant, regardless of their rank, should hold a political party...
Pasydy: “we won’t go down” if Supreme Court finds deductions unconstitutional
Glafkos Hadjipetrou, the general-secretary of civil servants’ union Pasydy, said he expects that “in a matter of months” the Supreme Court will decide on the...
Civil servants in multi-billion compensation claim over 2013 cuts
Civil servants union PASYDY are claiming billions in back pay from the state, union boss Glafcos Hadjipetrou said on Monday. He was speaking to reporters...
Clumsy Anastasiades focusing on re-election
By Loucas Charalambous TWO MONTHS ago I argued that President Anastasiades would not dare take the decisions necessary to reach a settlement. This is what...
Disgruntled public servants to break with PASYDY
By Constantinos Psillides Mighty public sector workers union PASYDY will be challenged from within for the first time in its history as a number of...
Green light for civil service strike (Updated)
By Angelos Anastasiou PASYDY’s general council, the governing body of the public sector employees’ union, on Monday approved the executive committee’s decision to stage a...
Omirou pities hard-done-by public servants
By Staff Reporter HOUSE President and socialist EDEK leader Yiannakis Omirou yesterday jumped to the defence of public servants portraying them as hard-done-by. After a...
Bill for promotion without extra pay a ‘monstrosity’ say civil servants
By Elias Hazou CIVIL servants union PASYDY said yesterday a bill to green-light promotions without accompanying pay increments was a “monstrosity”. Legislators yesterday continued to...
Civil servants’ strike meeting postponed, for now
By Constantinos Psillides CIVIL servants union (PASYDY) cancelled yesterday a scheduled meeting of its central secretariat, which was supposed to ratify Friday’s decision to go...
Our View: Strange days indeed. PASYDY chief poses as voice of reason
THE PASYDY boss after decades of bloody-minded militancy has now miraculously become a sensible and co-operative chap. The doyen of the union bosses, Glafcos Hadjipetrou...
Civil servants want to discuss cuts to allowances
THE boss of civil servants’ union PASYDY said on Tuesday his members would give the government a chance to discuss an alternative solution to a...
Anastasiades throws down gauntlet to PASYDY
By George Psyllides PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades warned yesterday that his administration would not tolerate any delays to plans to reform the civil service in a...
Union outrage at new public sector hours
By Stefanos Evripidou PUBLIC SECTOR unions voiced their strong opposition to the new working hours implemented on Monday, with one union boss arguing the banks...