Riot police were deployed to Greece's main harbor of Piraeus early on Wednesday morning and kept union leaders away from ships loading passengers and cargo, after the Greek government enforced a civil mobilization order, effective as of 6:00 am in an attempt to end a week-long strike by seamen which has left hundreds of islands without food, fuel or medicine.
The government decided to use the rarely used civil mobilization order for the second time in two weeks. Defying the order carries a minimum jail sentence of three months and a maximum of five years.
The State decided to adopt the measure, after the protesters said that they would continue with their rolling 48-hour strikes on Tuesday. If this had happened, then the Greek islands would be left without ferry transport until at least Friday and.
The striking seamen and their unions want to cancel a plan that plans to regulate the minimum number of dock workers required in each crew, arguing that this would lead to future layoffs, while they say they are striking on account of back pay from ship owners and a collective wage agreement.
It needs to be reminded that most of these workers work for the private sector, but nonetheless they still accuse the government of intransigence over their problems. The government has nonetheless made it clear that the margins are limited due to the country's economic situation.
Editor's Note - They of course forget that they should be protesting against their employers and not the state, but then again try explaining this to a protester from a communist-backed union. In their world everything is governed by the state and should be. What these people do not realize is that they can indeed strike, and still be heard without shutting down the operation of the country. This tactic, which was introduced by Leftists decades now, is blaze, and cannot continue. You cannot defy law and expect the State to listen to your demands. No union, no force and no organization has the right to hold the rest of the nation at hostage in order to be heard.
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