The project on Social Dialogue Capacity Building at sectoral and company levels is a follow-up of a similar project held at a national level in 2005. The methodology used included carrying out interviews with members of the nationally recognised representative organisations of employers and
This paper analyses the capacity of Cyprus’s social partners to effectively engage in social dialogue at various levels. The paper forms part of a wider, comparative project, managed by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Ireland) and the Work Life
May-June 1998 saw the first specific strike by foreign workers in Greece. The dispute, involving Albanian and Romanian agricultural workers, lasted five days and had a positive outcome.
For the time being at least, there is quiet on the battlefront between the Greek Government and Ionian Bank employees, following the decision in June 1998 by the Ionian Bank's Employees Union to suspend its long-running strike.
In late June 1998, the end appeared to be in sight in a dispute between Hellenic Posts workers and management, sparked by the latter's alleged unilateral violation of agreements with the postal workers' trade union.
Employees of Greece's Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) came out on strike on 19 June 1998, demanding withdrawal of the draft labour regulations submitted by OSE management to the Panhellenic Federation of Railway Workers (POS).
On 12 June 1998, Greece's Supreme Court issued a decision permitting selective and collective dismissals of strikers participating in a strike which has been declared illegal by the courts.
Sparked by the proposed sell-off of Ionian Bank, trade unions escalated industrial action in the Greek banking sector in May 1998, expanding both their programme for action and their framework of demands.
On 18 May 1998, after six months of hard bargaining, Greece's new National General Collective Agreement was signed. Despite predictions to the contrary, the deal will be in force for the two-year period 1998-9.
The Greek Government's announcement in May 1998 that it intends to sell Ionian Bank as a first step in a process of privatisations has brought to a head a confrontation between the Government and the trade union movement as a whole, and the bank employees' unions in particular.
On 10 April 1998, in the fifth round of negotiations between employers' organisations and the Greek General Confederation of Labour (GSEE) on the 1998 National General Collective Agreement (EGSSE), the GSEE rejected the employers' offer. This included a 4% wage increase, to be adjusted in future by
On 9 April, a 24-hour nationwide general strike called by the two largest trade union organisations - the Greek General Confederation of Labour (GSEE) representing workers in the private sector, and the Confederation of Public Servants (ADEDY), representing public servants - took place with great