No public transport in a city full of garbage

The Christmas spirit doesn’t seem to touch the cleaning service and public transport workers…

Great discomfort for all passengers and garbage «aroma» is in our Christmas menu for this year.

The nightmare of strikes in the public transport is still on in a city full of garbage, since, as it seems, the festive spirit does not seem to have a strong effect on public transport and cleaning service workers.

On Wednesday, from 11am until the end of their shift, workers in Local Authority will refrain from their duties after the decision of POE-OTA to announce a pan-Hellenic 4-hour strike, seeking «the defense of basic labor and economic rights, challenged and overturned by the current policies.»

With the new strike, the existing problem of garbage amassing in the streets of the capital for 20 days now, will grow. The white strikes by workers in Fyli initially, due to the non-renewal of the contracts of 100 fellow workers and then the strikes of the laborers, permanent and contracted, in the municipality of Athens, all created some stinky situations in the city.

Meanwhile, protests in Public Transport will continue until Thursday, since the workers postponed the planned Friday strikes in an act of good will after an appeal from GSEBEE.

Today, the day that the budget gets voted on, workers in all means of transportation will carry out a 24hr strike.

OSE trains, too, will remain immobilized today, because of the 24hr strike announced by the Pan-Hellenic Federation of Rail Workers. So according to TRAINOSE there will be no train service today.

On Thursday, December 23, all means of public transport will run from 9am to 10pm, after the reactions of the commercial sector.

TRAINOSE also reminds passengers, that the workers’ federation in the Suburban Rail has announced a 5hr strike for Thursday, from 11am to 4pm.