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Greek press holds 24-hour strike against fund merger

27 November 2007 09:20 (UTC +04:00)

The Athens Journalists’ Union (ESIEA) will hold a 24-hour strike from 6 a.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday against the journalist’s pension fund merger, APA reports
The strike is a result of the Journalists’ Union’s standing opposition to what it described as a framework of proposals for journalists’ pension funds, made last week by Labor and Social Insurance Minister Vassilis Magginas to ESIEA’s elected board of directors.
Among others, the government has "floated" an initiative to merge Athens journalists’ primary pension fund, one of the most robust in the country, with the physicians’ fund, the engineers’ fund and the previously troubled Athens lawyers’ fund, a prospect that ESIEA has heatedly opposed. According to the decision of the Journalistsâ€™ Union, media representatives will not participate in the press conferences, briefing, meeting and interviews today. TV channels and radios of country will not spread any information and newspapers of country will not be published on November 27. /APA/