Seafarers Announce 24-Hour Nationwide Strike on October 1

Greek seafarers are acceptable to stage a nationwide 24-hour strike connected Wednesday, October 1, 2025, pursuing a unanimous determination by the enactment of the Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation (PNO). The enactment coincides with broader mobilizations announced by the General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE).

During the strike, nary vessels will run crossed the country. The stoppage begins astatine 00:01 and ends astatine midnight the aforesaid day, affecting each categories of ships.

The protestation is triggered by a caller measure from the Ministry of Labor, which increases the regular working bounds to 13 hours. According to PNO, this measurement dismantles the long-standing rule of “eight hours work, 8 hours leisure, 8 hours rest,” undermining the idiosyncratic lives, health, and information of maritime workers.

The federation besides pointed to earlier legislative precedents, recalling that successful August 2013, contempt adverse economical and κοινωνικά conditions, Greece ratified the regularisation implementing the Maritime Labour Convention of 2006. That model allowed shipowners to widen working hours up to 14 per day, with the objection of rider and ferry vessels, where the ceiling was acceptable astatine 10 hours.

The strike is expected to origin important disruption successful oversea transport, highlighting erstwhile again the tension betwixt labour rights and manufacture demands successful the maritime sector.