Upset over a recent impromptu strike by a handful of managers and workers that shut down the metro system, the New Democracy government is said to be considering methods to prevent it happening again and also to rein in repeated street protests.
Draft legislation is set to be taken up at a Dec. 23 Cabinet meeting, said Kathimerini, including a series of measures to make it more difficult for workers to strike and no explanation of why trying to corral protests wouldn’t be anti-democratic.
The government wants to stop actions that tie up traffic after the metro strike left thousands of commuters stranded without notice of the work stoppage and led to the strikers being transferred out of office positions to ticket seller booths.
The proposed reforms include the appointment of a government official to coordinate with groups planning strikes and protests and going to court to seek injunctions to stop them, the paper said, with officials not explaining why strikers would work with them.
The bill also would require unions or groups planning protests to give the government a 48-hour warning with no word on why it was expected that anarchists who take to the streets spontaneously with often violent protests would ever agree do that.
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