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Schedule Of Greek Strikes For The Upcoming Week
The US and the rest of the developed world have a schedule of occupied venues for the next several days, false European headlines, and the occasional economic event.... Greece has a schedule of strikes. For those wondering what the oppotunity cost of Greek GDP and surplus is, here you go.
MONDAY
State media are to continue strike action until Thursday. The Panhellenic Seafarers Association’s strike until Tuesday will affect all ferry services. Lawyers are continuing to strike until Wednesday. Customs employees walk off the job for 24 hours. Tax office, Social Security Foundation (IKA) and local authority employees continue rolling 48-hour strikes.
TUESDAY
Railway workers start a three-day strike, until Thursday, affecting the Proastiakos suburban rail and the metro service to Athens Airport. Journalists hold a 24-hour strike. Port workers start a 48-hour strike.
WEDNESDAY
The country’s main labor unions, GSEE and ADEDY, begin a 48-hour strike. There will be no flights or taxis. Retail stores and banks will remain closed too.
THURSDAY
No flights or taxis, with public transport also likely to be disrupted as industrial action by GSEE and ADEDY continues.
Source: Ekathimerini
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How can you fully enjoy the collapse into anarchy without some time off?
luckely, the unions pay them for this time off.
And they'll keep doing so untill they need a bailout. And suddenly there won't be any strikes anymore.
COME ON!!! A TRAIN CONDUCTOR MAKES 6000 EURO A MONTH IN GREECE!!!!!
HE EVEN GETS A 450 EURO "clean hands" BONUS FOR WASHING HIS HANDS EVERY DAY!!
HE EVEN GETS A 350 EURO BONUS FOR SHOWING UP ON TIME EVERY MONTH!!!
THAT'S OVER 8000$ PLUS BONUSSES!!!
WHERE IS THE LOGIC!!!!!!!
PITTY?!!! HELL NO!!!!!!!
BURN GREEKS! BURN!
I WORK FOR A LIVING!
EVIL POLITICIANS?! HOW MANY GREEKS PROTESTED WHEN THEY GOT THEIR OVERBLOWN PAYCHECKS YEAR IN YEAR OUT?!?!?!
Fuck the train conductors.These bribes(in exchange for votes) belong to the past.Under the new law,a teacher will be paid euros 600.Cost of living:Gasoline price euros 6.32 per us gallon.Scroll down and see electricity cost,it seems cheap.Well,it isnt.If you add property and community taxes it doubles.
http://www.energy.eu/
TO BAD FOR THEM!!
THEY TOOK IT WITH A SMILE AND NOW IT'S PAYBACK TIME WITH A SMILE!!!
EVEN 600 EURO IS WAY TO MUCH!!
I'm A EUROPEAN TAXPAYER AND ALL I WANT TO KNOW IS: WHERE THE FUCK IS MY FREE GREEK ISLAND AS COMPENSATION!!!
Come and get it!
Weirdly that sounds like serfdom...if not exactly like serfdom.
Striking for paid strike time off and strike time off bonuses.
Listen, it's The Transitory Alien Replacement Plan devised by Paul Krugman.
Nothing whatsoever is produced, windows are broken, the miscreants do not loose any purchasing power, are in fact paid to otherwise destroy perfectly good infrastructure whilst on holiday striking and the EMS, Fire and Police get double extra emergency tripple additive enhanced 5X dangerous duty pay.
It's stimulative for shit's sake.
Quit criticizing!
Journalists on strike -- WHO will that inconvenience??
Hang the bankers and politicians. Once that messy business is out of the way(or during[who am I to judge?]), DANCE! Here's a youtube playlist to get you started - http://bit.ly/p2GNkL
FRIDAY
Central Bank strike. No bondholders will be paid for an indefinite period.
Well, that's one way to save some money. No Work no Spend.
You can’t count on the Greeks to reduce their GDP deficit but you can count on them to reduce their vacation deficit.
hey if anyone hears of a job opening at the Social Security Foundation down in Athens, please let me know...kinda like the non-working hours
So...
they are going on strike....
because....
the rest of the world doesn't want to give them money they won't get back ever?...
because...
they'll only get the money they make through profitable work?
because....
other dumb fucks should work and not the Uber Greeks?
makes sense....
Christ f*ck, I'll try to be as lenient as I'm allowed to, since you are obviously a retard and you should try reading more than one newspaper, or whatever a*s wiping mechanism you acquire your "wealth" of current events updates from.
The reason they are going on strike is because they have been financially raped by their collective as*clown gang that constitutes their government, they have been collectively fired and are forced to pay triple and quadruple taxes on everything, in order to provide the necessary revenue streams for they bankrupted government tax funds, which were being fleeced by their current and previous governments.
Greeks want to default, you narrow-minded ape, and you should consider who will be the beneficiaries of whatever money derive from European taxpayers. Perhaps if you and your likeminded morons were bothered to at least comprehend the farce that's taking place, would realize that Greeks are being forced to make due with €500 per month, before the tax storm they have to endure.
You could also educate yourself, regarding the working hours of Greek citizens before spewing the same nonsensical regurgitations that are being recycled across public forums by the same idiots, whose idiocy is of such magnitude, that it prevents them from actually understanding that Greeks are being Europe's scapegoats, and are deliberately being portrayed as the stereotypical "ouzo drinking 24/7 siesta enjoying lazy monkeys".
The truth is always somewhere in the middle though. I didn't hear of anyone revolting when they were bribing/hiring and offering all the extra perks and pensions. The gov't was buying votes and support and the people were lining thier pockets.
Everyone is equally guilty if you ask me. The people had to know this would have to stop eventually.
The reason you didn't hear of anyone revolting when they were bribing/hiring and offering all the extra perks and pensions, is because it was applied to a selectable minority. As for the Greek pensions or the Greek retirement age or even the work-hours timetable, is on par with the rest of the Europe, and when compared with many countries its retirement age is much higher. The fact-based reality has nothing to do with the idiotic inaccuracies which are being spewed left and right by the uninformed blogosphere, who caters to the same ignorant crowds by feeding them repeated rote sensationalization.
So you are partially correct, but only if one assumes that the disgruntled and increasingly deprived populace, which represents the revolting entity, which is the majority that has reached critical mass, are as responsible as the rest of the hundreds of millions around the world who were oblivious to the machinations of govermental economic policies, including the forced support of the banking sector by the taxpayers, or the increasing indistinction of the line between governments and the banking industry, which in turn affected all future policies which of course showed favouritism towards a certain oligarchic minority.
So yes, the people had to know this would have to stop eventually, but they also trusted their administrative structure, as everyone around the world did with admiteddly the same ignorance, and because of this ignorance they were manipulated by those in control, which lead to the results we see today which are total economic malaise and universal social implosion.
Sure, it's easy to see the moral hazard, NOW!
The EU has Greece covered, no need for Greeks to work. Greece gets money for simply managing to remain on the books of the banks of Europe. Otherwise Greece would be cut off. Why protest against the banks? It is the banks that allow Greece to get the money.
it the banks that created this living on the margin lifestyle that brought down Greece and soon the rest of the western economies.
Yep, don't blame the people for demanding 50 year-old retirement and a pay-for-doing-nothing culture. Don't blame the politicians for creating the socialist state that allowed it. No, blame the banks. I mean, you have to blame someone and you certainly don't want to blame yourself or those that passed all those laws creating "free" this and "free" that. Kill the bankers. Gotta kill someone, right?
Ever heard of predatory lending? Also known as the subprime mess? It was also done with sovereigns.Greece along with other countries should have been cut off and downgraded to hell five years ago. They were running as much of a clusterfuck of an economy then as they are now. And the Greek default wouldn't be that bad, and Greece would have been told to fuck off and sort out its own mess, had it not been for one simple problem. The banks have written a pile of OTC instruments on sovereign debt, and an unwinding of these instruments will create hole much larger than the original debt write down would have been. That's the whole point behind all these bailouts, life support and other nonsense you hear from Euroland. Greece should have been told to fuck off, the banks to go to hell and take their losses and that's that. And if they can't take their losses thay should go bankrupt. That's capitalism. Bailing out investment banking morons, through pretending to bail out the PIIGS is the stuff rebellions are made out of.
Good analogy. That should provide some enlightenment.
What is the difference between striking and the SOP? Either way, they don't work.
when you really start to understand the evolution of the roman empire roughly 2100 years ago, you understand the influence of the egyptians and the greeks... it can't be this transparent !?
so true.
Understanding history when you've got thousands of examples in today's life make these lessons pretty realistic.
Rome fell when it's cheap grain transports from the middle east stopped.
The West will fall when it's cheap grain transports from all over the world will stop.
The West will is already falling because our cheap energy is stopping from the middle east.
CONCLUSSION: NUKE THE MIDDLE EAST!!!