ATHENS (Sputnik) – Greek journalists will hold a five-hour strike on Tuesday in opposition to the new pension legislation, the Journalists’ Union of Athens Daily Newspapers (ESIEA) said.
"The strike involves all journalists working in all private, state and public media … on a public radio and the ERT television channel, at the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA), at general secretariat of information and press and at press services, in order to protect their rights," the ESIEA's statement read.
All media, portal, and public organization journalists will stop working from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. local time (8:00 – 13:00 GMT).
The strike is held to allow the journalists to attend a general meeting of their social insurance and healthcare fund EDOEAP, where they would discuss new pension legislation, leaving media-sector employees effectively uninsured.
