Posts tagged with "strike"

Government says it will not be blackmailed by teachers' strike Cyprus

Government says it will not be blackmailed by teachers' strike

September 12th, 2018 PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday the government would not succumb to blackmail as teachers announced a 48-hour strike next week. All three teachers' unions – Poed, Oelmek and Oltek – decided to go on strike next Tuesday and Wednesday after their latest proposals were rejected by the government in a dispute that has...
Greek seamen strike over wage deal, labour rights (Update) Greece

Greek seamen strike over wage deal, labour rights (Update)

September 3rd, 2018 Greek ships remained docked at the country's ports on Monday as seamen started a strike to demand the restoration of wages and labour rights, following the expiry of Greece's third bailout programme last month. The 24-hour walkout was organised by Greece's seamen federation (PNO), which said in a statement that negotiations with the...
Our View: Teachers have declared war. The government must win Our View

Our View: Teachers have declared war. The government must win

August 12th, 2018 THE INTENTION of teaching unions to stage an indefinite strike from the start of the new school year is a declaration of war. This can no longer be classed as an ordinary industrial dispute because the stakes are high, the warring sides fighting for ultimate control of public education. For decades, teaching unions held complete sway...
Strovolos binmen to continue strike on Monday Cyprus

Strovolos binmen to continue strike on Monday

July 27th, 2018 Binmen in the Strovolos municipality will continue their strike on Monday, unions said on Friday, following the 48-hour strike started on Thursday. The unions, branches of unions, Peo, Sek, and Deok asked the mayor to give the wages to be cut from their members due to the strike to people affected by the wildfires in Greece. The...
Dustmen in Strovolos go on 48-hour strike Cyprus

Dustmen in Strovolos go on 48-hour strike

July 26th, 2018 Dustmen in Strovolos, Nicosia, went on a 48-hour strike on Thursday in protest against municipalities, who they accused of hiring private contractors for rubbish collection. The first strike, lasting 24 hours, took place on June 21 and ended in a deadlock when the mayor insisted on privatising rubbish collection services. According...
Teachers threaten to strike, cut off contact with government Cyprus

Teachers threaten to strike, cut off contact with government

July 6th, 2018 Secondary school teachers’ union Oelmek on Friday threatened to strike from September after cutting off contact with the education ministry and asking the European teacher’s union to intervene. Oelmek members met on Thursday to discuss the government’s planned rationalisation of education that could change the hours they are...
Municipality criticises strike by rubbish collectors Cyprus

Municipality criticises strike by rubbish collectors

June 29th, 2018 A decision by union municipal workers to go on a 24-hour strike was unreasonable, Aglandjia municipality said on Friday. Staff went on strike from Thursday at 7pm to protest the municipal council’s decision to outsource rubbish collection to the private sector. In a statement, the municipality said the move would allow for a lot...
J&P staff in Saudi Arabia strike Cyprus

J&P staff in Saudi Arabia strike

June 22nd, 2018 Staff at 15 Joannou and Paraskevaides Group construction sites in Saudi Arabia are refusing to work over the company’s failure to pay their salaries since February, the Cyprus Mail has learned. Workers had warned the company, J&P Overseas, that they would not return to work after the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which ended Wednesday,...
Driving instructors postpone planned strike action Cyprus

Driving instructors postpone planned strike action

June 7th, 2018 Limassol driving instructors announced on Thursday they would be postponing their planned protest as the transport minister had invited them to commence a dialogue in a bid to resolve their problems. They had planned to gather outside the Limassol road transport department on Monday, in a bid to protest the long waiting lists learner...
Limassol driving instructors to strike over testing delays Cyprus

Limassol driving instructors to strike over testing delays

June 6th, 2018 Limassol driving instructors announced on Wednesday they would go on a two-hour work stoppage next week to protest over the long waiting lists for driving tests. The group said that at the moment, learner drivers have to wait up to five months to take the driving test and if they fail that test, they have to wait up to a year for...
Paphos bus strike ends Cyprus

Paphos bus strike ends

May 10th, 2018 The Paphos bus company (Osypa) called off a strike and resumed normal service on Thursday evening after reaching a deal with the government. The transport ministry said agreement had been reached with the company, which receives government funding. The deal provided for immediate payment of bus drivers’ wages for April. Some...
New Paphos bus strike from Wednesday, salaries not paid yet Cyprus

New Paphos bus strike from Wednesday, salaries not paid yet

May 8th, 2018 Bus company Osypa in Paphos will begin an indefinite strike on Wednesday, the second one this month, as they have yet to be paid their wages for April, they said on Tuesday. The strike is expected to affect 18,000 passengers of which 6,000 are students. A host of tourists, pensioners and the wider general public will also be...
Hospital staff suspend labour shortage strike (Updated) Cyprus

Hospital staff suspend labour shortage strike (Updated)

April 25th, 2018 Staff at Limassol’s general hospital suspended its 12-hour strike at lunchtime on Wednesday, giving the health ministry one week to meet their demands. During a meeting between trade unions and the ministry it was decided to establish procedures to fill new positions which were promised by the government to alleviate personnel...
Cleaning staff at Limassol hospital to strike Cyprus

Cleaning staff at Limassol hospital to strike

April 24th, 2018 Cleaning and other staff at Limassol hospital said they will be staging a 12-hour strike on Wednesday to protest problems created by lack of staff at the state facility. Unions had planned a strike for last Tuesday but eventually called it off after talks started with the health ministry. Negotiations however, did not yield any...
Contract teachers to strike next week (Updated) Cyprus

Contract teachers to strike next week (Updated)

April 13th, 2018 Contract teachers who work afternoons said they will go on a 24-hour strike next week after Education Minister Costas Hambiaouris said on Friday there is no possibility at the moment of changing their status. The minister made an appeal for any measures that could cause problems in schools to be avoided. The ministry, following a...
Parents say 10,000 pupils will be affected if all-day school teachers strike Education

Parents say 10,000 pupils will be affected if all-day school teachers strike

April 2nd, 2018 By Evie Andreou Organised parents of primary pupils on Monday urged the association of teachers of optional all-day schools not to act hastily and risk affecting more than 10,000 families, after the educators announced industrial measures to protest against their employment terms. If this happens, the parents said, they would ask...
Taxi drivers threaten to close airport in Thursday stoppage Cyprus

Taxi drivers threaten to close airport in Thursday stoppage

March 28th, 2018 Taxi drivers at Larnaca airport announced on Wednesday morning they would go on an indefinite strike at 8am on Thursday and threatened to close off the roads to the airport. The taxi drivers are protesting against new licences which are being given to shuttle buses for the routes to and from Ayia Napa and Protaras by the transport...
Parents appeal to striking bus company to solve dispute with the state Cyprus

Parents appeal to striking bus company to solve dispute with the state

March 20th, 2018 Parents of affected school children have appealed to striking Limassol drivers, bus company Emel and the transport ministry to resolve their conflicts after the drivers started a 48-hour strike on Tuesday morning. The parents’ union of public schools said immediate action should be taken by all concerned so students can get to...
Lanitis planned strike for Tuesday called off (Updated) Cyprus

Lanitis planned strike for Tuesday called off (Updated)

March 5th, 2018 Workers at Lanitis, one of the largest companies in Cyprus, who announced they would go on a one-day strike on Tuesday, said later the 24-hour work stoppage had been called off pending a meeting between the company, the unions and the labour ministry set for Thursday. Earlier, trade unions Segdamelin-Peo and Obiek-Sek said they had...
Planned work stoppage at Limassol port cancelled Cyprus

Planned work stoppage at Limassol port cancelled

March 2nd, 2018 A two-hour stoppage by Limassol port workers scheduled on Monday has been cancelled, trade unions said on Friday after procedures were set in motion to satisfy the workers’ safety concerns. Port workers at Limassol had announced a two-hour work for Monday over safety concerns after an accident last week in which one of their...
Port workers call strike over safety concerns Cyprus

Port workers call strike over safety concerns

March 1st, 2018 Port workers at Limassol port announced a two-hour work stoppage for Monday over safety concerns after an accident last week in which one of their colleagues was seriously injured. Trade unions Sek and Peo said in a written statement that port workers will gather outside the port between 9 and 11am on Monday in protest over health and...
Hospital strike called off after minister intervenes Cyprus

Hospital strike called off after minister intervenes

February 15th, 2018 A 12-hour work stoppage planned by hourly-paid workers at Nicosia’s Archbishop Makarios III hospital was called off on Thursday following the intervention of Health Minister Giorgos Pamboridis. The work stoppage – which started at 6.30am - was interrupted after Pamboridis reportedly promised to bring the matter up in next week’s...
Makarios hospital cleaners to stage 12-hour strike Health

Makarios hospital cleaners to stage 12-hour strike

February 14th, 2018 Hourly-paid cleaners at Nicosia’s Archbishop Makarios III hospital will stage a 12-hour strike on Thursday, from 6.15am. They said they were protesting against the many problems they face at the hospital, which have, according to their unions, not been resolved. Trade unions Oekdy Sek and Pasyek Peo announced the decision on the...
Limassol bus strike postponed (Updated) Cyprus

Limassol bus strike postponed (Updated)

January 31st, 2018 A planned strike by Limassol bus company Emel for Thursday has been postponed until next Tuesday. Before that, a general assembly will be held and depending on the outcome it will be decided whether measures will be scaled up. After discussions between workers and their unions on Tuesday it was decided to hold off the 24-hour work...
Central Bank staff strike over restructuring talks Cyprus

Central Bank staff strike over restructuring talks

January 24th, 2018 Staff at the Central Bank who are members of Etyk trade union held a two-hour strike on Wednesday to protest the lack of dialogue on the reconstruction of the organisation. Etyk said the 10am-12pm work stoppage had been decided last September as a measure of last resort but the union wanted to give time to the management to initiate...
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