Myndigheterna i Grekland tänker arrestera landets lärare - om de strejkar

Grekland tänker arrestera sina lärare -  om de strejkar 
RT 2013-05-13
Myndigheterna i Aten har hotat att arrestera landets högskolelärare om de genomför sin planerade masstrejk den här veckan...


Det senaste  utspelet från de Grekiska myndigheterna ses som ett försök att lugna Greklands internationella kreditgivare och visa marknaden att Grekland inte tänker avvika från den omfattande sparplan som landet förbundit sig att följa...



En video från RT som sammanfattar läget i Grekland just nu.
Läs mer på: http://rt.com/news/austerity-measure-teachers-strike-192/
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Greek govt threatens to arrest teachers over strike

RT 2013-05-13
Athens has threatened to arrest high school teachers if they carry out a strike this week, in a move seen as reassurance to Greece’s foreign bailout creditors that the country will not abandon its harsh austerity measures and unpopular reforms.

The announcement marks the third time this year that the Greek government has invoked emergency laws to force strikers to return to work.

Greece is due to receive €7.5 billion in loans soon, the latest tranche of a €240-billion rescue package signed in 2010; Athens currently has no money to pay pensions and wages. To cope with the personnel gaps, Athens plans to require two additional hours of work each week from high school teachers, and plans to transfer 4,000 of them to remote regions of the country.

The government broke a longstanding taboo last month by agreeing to dismiss some 15,000 public-sector workers by the end of 2014, a key demand by the EU and International Monetary Fund for Greece to qualify for further rescue loans, Reuters reported.

According to OLME, the union representing the teachers, about 10,000 part-time teachers could be dismissed once their temporary contracts expire. The union has called for a 24-hour strike when university exams start on May 17.

However, under Greek law the government has the right to forcibly mobilize workers in the event of a civil disorder, natural disaster or public health risk.

“This is a very authoritarian move from the government because it has issued civil mobilization orders for secondary education teachers in the public school system even before they decided to stage a strike during the university entry exams. Geek law is very explicit that civil mobilization refers to wars and natural disasters, not forms of civil protest,” Panagiotis Sotiris, sociology lecturer at the University of the Aegean, told RT.

“It’s really interesting to see that one of the legal experts, who has insisted for many years on the unconstitutionality of these emergency laws, is no other than the current Minister of Justice in the Greek government, Mr Antonis Roupakiotis,” he said.

Education Minister Constantine Arvanitopoulos justified the ban by arguing that students had a right to take exams without disruption; teachers will be served a civil mobilization order to go to work on that day, or risk arrest.



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Myndigheterna i Grekland tänker arrestera landets lärare -  om de strejkar