JOC Staff | Feb 11, 2013 11:01AM EST
The International Transport Workers’ Federation has written to Antonis Samaras, Greece’s prime minister, and Kostas Mousouroulis, the Minister of Shipping and Aegean, requesting that the government withdraw the civil mobilization order implemented on Feb. 5, which ordered striking seafarers back to work or face arrest.
The strike, which started on Jan. 31, is over seafarers’ demands for months of unpaid wages and the repeal of a draft law that weakens their union, the ITF-affiliated Pan-Hellenic Seamen’s Federation.
The civil mobilization order was also used by the Greek government to end a nine-day walkout by metro workers at the end of January.
