Strike at AADE and Ministry of Finance – complaining about working conditions

The Greek Union of Public Economic Services Employees continues to strike, as the WTO-DOU General Council decided and announced that it has declared a nationwide 24-hour strike on Wednesday, January 24, 2024.

Minimal staff, outdated hardware, and constant experimentation

The announcement read: “The growing number of workers in the services of AADE and the Ministry of National Economy and Finance fight every day, under adverse conditions, to keep our services running. Minimal staff, outdated logistics infrastructure, and constant experimentation.” At the expense of workers and citizens on the part of the administration and the prolonged “reorganization of services” that create more problems than they solve – conditions that undermine the work of services and from which citizens suffer every day.

Unpaid work

Almost daily overtime, in order to respond to tens of thousands of “orders” or not to delay tax cases and unpaid work at home in the afternoons and weekends, in a period of uncontrollable punctuality, cannot and will not be allowed. To become new… regularity.

We will also not allow the marginal status of our services, under the responsibility of political leaders, to be an excuse for the involvement of individuals.

Requests

On January 24, we will send our first clear message to the government and AADE leadership. A message of decisive affirmation of humane working conditions, defending the public nature of our services and demanding action to increase income in the face of an unprecedented wave of precision.

On January 24, 2024, employees of AADE, SDOE, Real Estate Services and Central Services went on strike demanding the following:

• Human working conditions.
• Hiring employees.
• End the downsizing of our Services (known as a “Reorganization”).
• Digitization of our services.
• Significant salary increases.
• “Recovery of the thirteenth and fourteenth salaries.”