{"id":1470,"date":"2009-11-18T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2009\/11\/18\/strikes-at-piraeus-ruled-illegal\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:30:34","slug":"strikes-at-piraeus-ruled-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/europe\/strikes-at-piraeus-ruled-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Strikes at Piraeus ruled illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The court ruled that, with the arrival of Cosco, there was little risk of dockers losing their jobs. As a result, it has banned all similar action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">In October, dockworkers went on strike for two weeks, causing a huge backlog of freight to build up. Another strike commenced in early November, but had to be called off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">At the same time, the new political administration in charge in Athens is trying to find ways of improving the 35-year concession contract to give it more favourable terms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">The Greek government has also said there is no way the contract would be terminated, given the strategic value to the country of its relations with China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greek judiciary has labelled as illegal strikes against the new concessionaire at the Port of Piraeus, a verdict that trade unions have renounced as unjust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}