Striking strikes on commuter and long distance rail services next week

The Pan-Hellenic Federation of Railways will participate in the strike next week. Specifically, from Wednesday, July 11 until Friday, July 20, 2018 strikes for the staff of the OSE, EESSY, TRAINOSE, ERGOSE and GAIAOSE are expected

. affect the TRAINOSE routes throughout Greece, including the suburbs of Athens. The mobilizations will take place as follows:

– Wednesday, July 11, 2018 : Workstations between 5:00 – 8:00, 13:00 – 16:00 and 21:00 – 00:00

– Friday, July 13, 2018 : workstations between 5:00 – 8:00, 13:00 – 16:00 and 21:00 – 00:00

– Monday, July 16, 2018 : Workstations between 5:00 – 8:00, 13:00 – 16:00 and 21:00 – 00:00

– Wednesday, 18 July 2018 : Workstations between 5:00 – 8:00, 13:00 – 16:00 and 21:00 – 00:00

– Friday, 20 July 2018 : 24-hour strike (midnight to midnight) midnight)

TRAINOSE, in a statement, will inform the public of the roads that will be suspended. For the hours that trains will be stopped, it is also expected that there will be no metro services in the section Douk. The reason for the mobilizations, according to the ICP, is the "general situation of privatization – transfer and dismantling of the railway with unpaid workers because they can not have collective agreements.