Seamen's strike announced for next Thursday

"Unfortunately, not only have the problems faced by the seamen's sector not been resolved by those governing but are instead becoming ever greater and more acute, with more new demands and promoted new measures and cuts at the dictates of the third memorandum," a PNO announcement said.

The union said the strike was being called in response to the dismantling of the NAT seamen's pension fund, the reduction of crew positions on passenger ships, pension cuts, rising unemployment and increasing black employment in the sector.