Greece on Strike tomorrow Wednesday July 6th- Metro, Tram and Electric train, Get ready and learn what will happen

Specifically, tomorrow Wednesday July 6th, workers in Metro, Tram and  Electric train( ILEKTRIKOS )  proceed to 24 hour strike

Specifically decided:
Wednesday, July 6, 2016: 24 hours strike
Metro, ISAP (Electric) & Tram
Trains and Suburban, 24 strike.
Note: Blue Buses, Trolley & Taxi are move normally..

Strike from Wednesday to Metro, Tram and Electric train, Get ready and learn what will happen

Specifically, from next Wednesday June 8th, workers in Metro, Tram and  Electric train( ILEKTRIKOS )  proceed to formal work stoppages and a possible escalation of the mobilizations.

Specifically decided mobilizations:

Wednesday, June 8, 2016: Stop working from 12.00 to 16.00
Friday, June 10, 2016: Stop working from 22.00 to shift end
Monday, June 13, 2016: Stop working from baseline to 10.00
Wednesday, June 15, 2016: Stop working from 21.00 to shift end
Friday, June 17, 2016: Stop working from 12.00 to 17.00

Note: The other Public Transports are initiated normally.

Greece-How it will move the public transportation today Sunday 8-5-2016

With problems journeys with public transport and today Sunday will be held due to the strike.
Specifically, buses and trolley will operate between 9:00 a.m. 21:00. Restoration of traffic will be until 10:00 am, and will begin to withdraw from 20:00.
The metro will start operating from 9.00 in the morning, as they preceded stoppage between 5:00-    9: 00.
The Tram Sunday will operate normally, because the union suspended the 24-hour strike that was launched.

The Suburban will not work today  Sunday 

The services section Duchess Placentia - Airport will take place throughout the course of the day, because of the  24-hour strike  OSE-Trains and Suburban.
The ships in ports will remain until 6.00 am Tuesday 10 May, because of the four-day nationwide strike action of the Panhellenic Seamen's Federation, which began at 6:00 am Friday, May 6th.
Closed and the gas stations
At the same time, they will stay closed the gas stations today Sunday after the Panhellenic Federation of Gas Station Owners decision Dealers Fuel (POPEK) for participation in the mobilizations of GSEBEE and ESEE

Greece-See which roads will be closed today in Athens

Traffic regulations from today Thursday morning because of student parade to mark the national holiday of March 25. The parade will take place on Amalias Avenue. Specifically, the traffic arrangements will apply from 9:30 in the morning, and stopping and parking vehicles and other vehicles will not be allowed, and the movement of vehicles will be phased out in the following roads:
-L.Vas. Amalias entire length of both traffic streams. -L.Vas. sofias, in the section of between Sekeri and L.Vas routes. Amalia, traffic stream to pl. syntagma. -King. George, throughout its length. -El. Venizelou (Panepistimiou), in extended length and vertical to the first parallel. -Stage, in the part of each of the Aeolian Street and Constitution Square. -N. Vas. Olga, the entire length of both traffic streams. - Syngrou section of road between Ath. Diakos and Dion. Areopagitou, traffic stream to pl. syntagma.

Also, at the same time, they will make adjustments to the routes of public transport and recalled that the Metro would remain closed for 24 strike

Greece-24-hour strike in Metro, today Thursday, March 24

Twenty-four hour strike today Thursday, March 24 in Metro announced the Association of Workers of Athens Metro Operation (Selma) who complains about the constant undermining of structures and infrastructure, and for the targeting of the attitude of workers with inciting political leadership transport.
"The latest events by breaking metro stations, damages costing more than EUR 100,000 to each station, and the targeting of workers lead to impairment of Metro project. The last four months have left us prey to unscrupulous nails that have targeted us, so we protest, says  to the  tsismosaonline.com news reporter the president of the Association Mr. Spyros chickpeas.

The announcement of the association
"Our association Thursday 24/02/2016 proceeds working attitude from the beginning to the end of the movement protesting the constant undermining of structures and infrastructures as well as the targeting of the attitude of workers with inciting the political leadership of transport.
It is no coincidence that once developed sectors privatization plans and transport services ticket price increases and workers targeted as responsible for the above.
In this direction moves and shaming colleagues from strangers with the aim to be terrified to accept the privatization plans.
Consider the total workforce of the country as colleagues with common demands and struggles with first and sovereign defense of acquired against medieval requiring our government policies. "

Greece Celebrates Anniversary of November 17, 1973 against dictatorship, The metro stations Megaro Mousikis, Evagelismos and syntagma will not work today

On the 42nd anniversary of the November 17, 1973 student uprising against the colonels’ dictatorship, a cold chill embraces Athens in light of the bloody terrorist attack in Paris. This year Athenians and visitors from other cities place flowers not only in the Athens Polytechnic but at the French embassy as well. The shocking events in Paris put the celebration of the brave students’ resistance in the back seat.
As the value of freedom in Greece was stomped upon for seven years by the military junta, it seems that 42 years later a fanatic religious army from the east threatens the value of freedom in all of Europe. Ironically, the French army patrols the streets now. Just like the Greek army — under the orders of the dictators, patrolled the streets of Athens during the riots that erupted around the Athens Polytechnic. It is not a good sign to have troops holding machine guns next to the cafe where you drink your coffee.
This is not the kind of world those young men and women had in mind when they defied the tank that tore down the Polytechnic gate that eerie night and shouted to the armed soldiers, “You are our brothers.”
A few months later Greece was a free country again. Democracy was restored and future politicians used and abused the brave struggle of those people to their own ends. Even some of the Polytechnic heroes grew up and started cashing in on their moments of glory. The meaning of November 17 was twisted. A group of terrorists were named after that date and killed a number of their political opponents. Even the meaning of democracy was twisted to serve hateful purposes.
Every year during the commemorative day some self-professed anarchists hide in the crowds that rally, vandalize and burn Athens in the name of the flavor of the day. Every year fewer people join the rally. The veneer of that great event has faded as people see that many confuse freedom with anarchy.
Today, spineless politicians pretend that they would stand in front of the tank were they of age in 1973. Others claim they fought against the junta but they can’t prove it. Even worse, others literally robbed state funds while professing they live by the principles the Polytechnic students stood for. And brought Greece to the sad state it’s in today.
On November 17, 2015 it would be more fair to say a big thanks to all the unknown heroes of that day who preferred to remain anonymous and stay in the romantic shadows of their ideals.

Meanwhile for security reasons today only the metro stations Megaro Mousikis, Evagelismos and syntagma will not work , People will not go in or out from those Metro stations in Athens.

View your stamps in IKA online, the easy way to find your encima in Greece-Detailed guide

All of the insured people in Greece have now over the internet  direct access to the individual elements in order to keep record of their stamps in IKA and other Greek insurances offices. The "digital security account" will be unique for each person and secured with personal code . The new system will initially cover the past 21 insurance years.Currently has been integrated the insuring time since 1994 until today IKA, OAEE, the EBRD and from 1998 to today OGA. Overall incorporated 2.8 billion days of insurance. In the next period will integrate information from ETAP-media and NAT, and the period 1994-1997 for OGA.
Every insured person is able to see and print the time of his insurance .
Access is through the use of code TAXIS of GSIS and requires knowledge of the SSN(AMKA)

click here untill the following screen appears, then click the blue button 

In the following screen enter the codes in the  taxisnet of GSIS that you used for tax return

In the following screen of ATLAS Enter your  SSN (AMKA). If you dont  not remember your  SSN (AMKA) click here to find 

In the following screen the insured can see the stamps in detail all or per month.

Success story of Filipino owned restaurant in Greece who has survived tough times, and continue to beat the Greek economic crisis

DIFFICULT YEARS. Delia Balilo Nguyen is another OFW who has survived tough times in Athens.
Fried fish with rice, sweet sour pork and Peking duck with broccoli or with pancakes. These are just some of the dishes being served at Viet Au restaurant in Ambelokipi of Athens where many Filipinos reside. Five kinds of set menus with choice of appetizers, main dish and rice at 5 Euro ($6.75*) is a value-for-money offer for delivery to nearby offices. No wonder the restaurant is a popular choice of Greek and Filipinos alike.

Viet Au, established in 2005, is owned and managed by Delia Balilo Nguyen. Originally it was named Golden Greek restaurant.
“May tumawag at sabi hindi ko daw puwedeng gamitin ang word na ‘Greek’ kaya pinalitan ko ng 'Viet Au' (Somebody called and said I cannot use the word ‘Greek’ for my restaurant name. So I changed it to Viet Au)," Delia said.
She is not only the manager but also the chef who takes care of planning and preparing the dishes.
“We also have eat-all-you-can buffet on Sundays at 10 euros ($13.50)," Delia said.
The buffet usually includes from 12 to 18 dishes such as pancit (noodles), teriyaki chicken wings, barbecue spare ribs, Vietnamese spring rolls, and other Asian dishes. Sometimes she adds Filipino food like dinakdakan, Bicol Express and menudo.
Delia’s experience during her early years in Greece is one of hardship and trials. She entered Greece in 1986 with the help of her neighbor and her sister who paid for her expenses. With a two-year contract, she was a kasambahay (domestic helper) for a Greek couple who had two kids. She worked 14 hours a day, with a day off of a day and 5 hours only.
She lived in a boarding house consisting of two rooms, together with 17 other Filipinas. It was in this boarding house where she met her husband, Nguyen Quoc Thanh, a Vietnamese refugee. Their love story is like a teleserye (drama series) where the man was visiting another lady in the boarding house, but ended up with her instead. Marriage was the only way she could get away from her Greek employer. She did not work for 4 years after she got married to Nguyen in 1988.
When she resumed working, Delia was employed for 10 months at Kowloon restaurant in Glyfada. For the next 15 years she worked at Epicure, a restaurant chain owned by a Greek-American. Again, she was overworked, on duty from 11 pm to 4 am at the canteen owned by the restaurant, and at 5:30 am of the same day, she would go back to the restaurant to serve. She would be dizzy most of the time from lack of sleep and fatigue.
Her husband at died of kidney failure at 36. They have 3 daughters, two of whom have finished college in Greece. The son of her husband from a previous marriage works as her all around assistant.
Delia does not have any culinary training. She learned the rudiments of food preparation and cooking by experience and by watching television cooking programs. Her creativity and passion for cooking are evident in the delicious and authentic Chinese and Vietnamese dishes being served at the restaurant.
Mr John Ramos, one of the customers, was all praises for the noodles with shrimps and teriyaki duck he had that day.
Weddings, birthdays and baptismal receptions are also being held there.
“Nagpapasalamat ako sa mga kababayan natin na kumakain pa rin dito (I am grateful to our countrymen who continue to patronize my restaurant)," Delia said.
 Delia is an  OFWs in Greece who are making good in the food industry, not only as chef and hardworking food maker, but as restaurateur as well who continue to beat the Greek economic crisis

Reporting for tsismosaonline.com 05-09-2015 Pinay Ako sa Greece Ana Maria