Agenda
THURSDAY Staff at public hospitals around Greece to stage a three-hour work stoppage from noon to 3 p.m., demanding more staff and for their jobs to be classified as hazardous and unhealthy. Judicial employees in Athens to stage a work stoppage from noon until the end of their shift today and tomorrow over financial and institutional demands. Protesters will demonstrate at 12.30 p.m. outside the Athens court buildings. Term contract public sector employees to demonstrate at 9.30 a.m. outside the Supreme Court and then march to the Interior Ministry, demanding permanent status. Seventh Car and Motor-Boat Exhibition to opens at the Helexpo fairground in Thessaloniki. Runs through Sunday. For details, call 210.866.5874 or log on to www.organica-expo.gr. FRIDAY Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis to visit Sofia, Bulgaria. On Saturday he will visit Kilkis prefectures. Civil Servants’ Union (ADEDY) to meet to discuss its 24-hour strike in May. Employees at Cosmote mobile telephony to stage a 24-hour strike demanding collective labor agreement. «Best Value Yachting 2006» in-water exhibition of second-hand boats to begin at the port of Lavrion. Through Monday. For details, call 210.922.1254 or log on to www.europartners.gr. Central Union of Municipalities and Communities of Greece (KEDKE) to hold a conference on «The Aegean Islands’ Transport Problem – Possible Solutions and the Role of the Local Government,» in Ermoupolis, Syros. To Saturday. For details, call 210.389.9600 or log on to www.kedke.gr. Public Power Corporation (DEH) employees to stage a 24-hour strike demanding collective labor agreement. SATURDAY Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis to visit Thessaloniki. He is expected to meet with Thessaloniki Mayor Vassilis Papageorgopoulos and Thessaloniki Prefect Panayiotis Psomiadis. On Sunday he will meet with the culture ministers of Southeastern Europe.