The people employed with a fixed term labor contract in the National media blocked all entrances of the building at 7,30 this morning. The reason for the boycott is that today their fixed term contracts expire and starting with tomorrow these people remain unemployed.
At a secret voting in the Parliament regarding the involvement of six former ministers from the government of New Democracy in the scandal with the real estate properties of the Vatoped monastery lawmakers decided to send their five of them to a Pre-inquiry Committee and for one of them (the former deputy minister of the agricultural development Konstantinos Kiltidis) the majority said through their votes they do not wish to have further investigation because they considered that he was not involved in the case.
Out of 21 planned courses of the ships departing from the port of Piraeus for the Greek islands, five were not carried out. For the Argosaronic Gulf were carried out 59 routs and with great delay departed the evening ships.
"We do not sell and we are not for sale" reads the slogan, which is stretched on a giant canvas of the building of the Greek Public Power Corporation by the Confederation of energy workers in Greece, who are threatening to organize long term strikes if the government of George Papandreou does not give up its plans to reform the state enterprises and to launch a series of privatizations.
If behind every successful man lies a great woman, then behind the Minister of civil protection Michalis Chrisochoidis are hiding at least four, counting only those who officially married him.
The siege of the port of Piraeus by unionists of the Communist Party continues, with some of the strikers having closed the entrances to the piers, while others having climbed on the gates of ships traveling to the islands of the Argosaronic Gulf.