Posts tagged with "strike"

Limassol municipal workers call strike over promotion row Cyprus

Limassol municipal workers call strike over promotion row

February 11th, 20191694 LIMASSOL municipal workers who are members of the Akel-affiliated Peo trade union are going on a 24-hour strike on Tuesday in protest over the promotion of a municipal employee the union says was unqualified for the post. The municipality, however, could not say how many of its employees would strike. Mayor Nicos Nicolaides told...
CyBC staff stage strike over electrocution Cyprus

CyBC staff stage strike over electrocution

February 1st, 20191223 State broadcaster CyBC staff staged a 15-minute impromptu work stoppage at lunchtime Friday after the electrocution of a staff member the previous day. Unions said a graphic designer was electrocuted and rushed to hospital while working in a newly renovated room. It is understood that the employee was not in a life-threatening...
Construction workers to stage strike next month Cyprus

Construction workers to stage strike next month

January 22nd, 20192206 Construction workers will go on a 24-hour strike next month as a warning to the building contractors that employ them to respect their collective agreement and restore their slashed salaries and benefits. Trade unions Peo, Sek and Deok announced their construction members would go a 24-hour warning strike on February...
Strike to go ahead at Limassol port on Wednesday Cyprus

Strike to go ahead at Limassol port on Wednesday

January 14th, 20191881 Staff at Limassol port will stage a 24-hour strike on Wednesday, protesting at the same time outside the presidential palace, it was announced on Monday. The council of ministers will meet at the presidential palace on Wednesday to appoint a court of arbitration to resolve the dispute. Port workers are against the process, and have...
Etyk cancels two-hour strike at Hellenic (updated) Cyprus

Etyk cancels two-hour strike at Hellenic (updated)

December 27th, 20183548 Bank workers' union Etyk cancelled a two-hour warning strike at Hellenic Bank on Thursday, which had been planned to protest against the management for supposedly separating workers into two categories after the integration of parts of the co-operative bank. The stoppage had been scheduled between 12.30pm and 2.30pm but a statement...
Scrambling to avert bus chaos, new efforts on Sunday Cyprus

Scrambling to avert bus chaos, new efforts on Sunday

December 1st, 20182667 By Lizzy Ioannidou The transport minister was scrambling on Saturday night to avert bus strikes in Limassol, Paphos and Larnaca threatened for Monday that could affect 10,000 public transport users mainly students, pensioners and tourists. Transport Minister Vassiliki Anastassiadou chaired a two-hour meeting with company officials...
Unpaid workers strike outside J&P offices (Update 2) Cyprus

Unpaid workers strike outside J&P offices (Update 2)

October 31st, 20186080 Around 200 employees of Ten Group Services, which offered support services to J&P Overseas, now in liquidation, went on strike on Wednesday morning outside the J&P offices in Nicosia demanding unpaid wages. Construction giant J&P Overseas Limited was initially placed under administration earlier this month after its...
Government says it will not be blackmailed by teachers' strike Cyprus

Government says it will not be blackmailed by teachers' strike

September 12th, 20187821 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, 20181484 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, 20186561 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, 20181818 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, 20181243 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, 20182098 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, 20181575 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, 20187701 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, 20181696 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, 20181761 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, 20183704 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, 20186758 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, 20183328 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, 20181775 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, 20182576 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, 20183056 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, 20188833 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, 20182335 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...
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