On 14 October 2025, the day that parliament debated on the anti-labour bill providing for 13-hour workdays, a new 24-hour general strike took place in Greece, for the second time in 15 days.
The strike was called by 38 Labour Centres, which are local trade union associations, including those in the largest Greek cities (Athens, Thessaloniki, Piraeus, Patras, Larissa and Ioannina), as well as 18 sectoral trade union federations. These include the largest private-sector sectoral trade union confederation in Greece, that of construction workers, as well as the large federations of workers in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, textile, chemical industry, energy, railways, etc. The Confederation of all public sector unions (ADEDY) also decided to strike, in contrast to the majority of the confederation of private sector unions (GSEE), which once again supported the anti-popular government and employers in practice. Thus, the great success of the strike was a response not only to the government, but also to the compromised leadership of the GSEE.
Workplaces, factories, construction sites, ports, banks, and transportation were paralyzed, with thousands of workers taking to the streets of Athens and other cities to protest against policies that constantly create dead ends in the people’s lives, for the sake of the profits of business groups, intensifying the exploitation and “flexibility” of the working class and eroding people’s incomes due to high prices.
