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May 16th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Nikos Papachristos, head of the Federation of Secondary Education State School Teacher (OLME), said on Thursday that the plans for the strike, scheduled to begin on Friday, were abandoned.
“There are colleagues facing dismissal, we don’t want families to cry and homes to shut,” he said.
The union’s vote on Wednesday failed to secure the majority for pursuing the six-day strike. The country’s other major unions also rejected OLME’s request to hold a general strike on Friday in support of the teachers’ move.
The country’s top court had also refused the teachers’ plea to suspend the government’s emergency order aimed at preventing the strike.
A four-hour work strike was called for Thursday instead to protest the planned job cuts and two-hour increase on teachers’ weekly working hours.
On Monday, the government enacted a decree to force teachers back to work. Under the decree, striking teachers could face criminal charges and a minimum of three months’ imprisonment if they go ahead with their strike plans.
On Wednesday, Amnesty International criticized the government’s measure as it violates Greece’s international human rights obligations.
“A blanket prohibition on teachers’ right to strike, imposed by means of criminal prosecution and the threat of prison sentences, is clearly unnecessary and disproportionate and would violate Greece’s international human rights obligations,” said Jezerca Tigani, Amnesty’s Deputy Director for Europe and Central Asia Program.
“Times of financial hardship don’t absolve governments from their obligations to uphold all human rights, and workers’ rights in particular should not become a casualty to the crisis,” Tigani added.
Greece has been at the epicenter of the eurozone debt crisis and is experiencing its sixth year of recession, while harsh austerity measures have left tens of thousands of people without jobs.
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