#strike

Drivers working for delivery platform Wolt have launched immediate strike action over working conditions and low delivery rates, with the protest expected to last up to a week, several drivers ...

Workers at Goldair Handling Cyprus Ltd staged a strike at Larnaca airport on Friday, halting operations for two hours and disrupting flights amid an escalating dispute over redundancies, pay and ...

Trade unions representing employees of the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) accused the state of promoting private interests instead of projects aimed at reducing electricity costs for consumers, while also ...

Bus drivers will be staging a two-hour work stoppage on March 27, from 9am till 11am, to protest warning signals they said put drivers and passengers alike in danger, their unions ...

Urban taxi drivers warned on Monday they would start an indefinite strike on Tuesday if problems leading to the sector’s “total destruction” were not immediately addressed. In a letter ...

The House on Thursday evening amended the law on public gatherings and parades, softening up some of its provisions which critics had decried as draconian. The vote garnered 29 votes in ...

Turkish Cypriots employed at the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) called off a planned strike on Monday, after receiving their back pay at the last minute. The 50 employees ...

Workers at Ektam, the north’s producer of Pepsi and other soft drinks, on Friday announced that their strike is now “indefinite” after representatives of both Ektam and PepsiCo’s ...

Representatives of international food and beverage corporation PepsiCo’s Turkish subsidiary and its licensed producer in the north Ektam have refused to enter a meeting with the Turkish Cypriot authorities ...

Trade unions in the north have urged Turkish Cypriots to boycott Pepsi and other well-known drinks produced by Ektam, with a strike called on by workers at the company last ...

Workers at Ektam, the north’s producer of Pepsi and other well-known soft drinks, have gone on a 24-hour strike, claiming that the company has deprived them of the right ...

Taxi drivers in Larnaca went on strike for four hours on Tuesday morning in protest at what they described as “uncontrolled action by passenger transport applications” in the town, and ...

Workers at Larnaca port went on strike on Thursday morning from 7.30am till 11.30am, protesting over poor health and safety measures. Trade unions Sek and Peo said in a joint ...

Overtime claimed by nurses working in state hospitals has been closely checked by the state health services organisation (Okypy), which concluded that many of the extra hours were not justified, ...

As part of their strike over the government’s plans to introduce a new evaluation system, secondary school teachers on Wednesday emphasised that they agreed that a new system needed ...

Trade union Isotita on Monday called on parliament to vote against the teacher evaluation plan, appealing for a “return to a consultation process for the development of a modern, pedagogically ...

The House education committee has changed the time it will be meeting on Wednesday, following objections by parents’ associations who said a planned work stoppage by teachers over their new ...

Operations at Limassol port remain at a standstill as a strike by category A lorry transporters continues, causing what the Cyprus shipping agents association on Thursday described as an “operational ...

Government politicians are terrified of strikes in the broader public sector. This is most probably because public sector unions represent large numbers of voters which no politician ever wants to ...

Social workers went on a 24-hour strike on Monday, objecting to the deputy welfare ministry’s decision to “arbitrarily” assign them duties belonging to the department for the social integration ...

Social welfare services staff hold a 24-hour strike on Monday in protest over a recent decision about the coordination of disability support programmes. The announcement was made by the administrative ...

Customs workers in Limassol and Nicosia went on a 24-hour strike on Thursday, then escalated by announcing an indefinite strike starting on Friday, demanding more time to get acquainted with ...

Trade unions will hold a Cyprus-wide meeting on Wednesday to discuss the latest developments in the CoLA impasse, which could include extending or intensifying measures. Unions from the private and ...

Workers at three hotels in Limassol went on a spontaneous strike on Friday morning. Trade union Sek announced that workers at the Atlantica Miramare hotel, the Atlantica Oasis hotel, and ...